Wooden box (label) - cloth - mummy wrapping
Production date
1900
Country
Egypt
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Description
Label accompanying mummy cloth and wooden box, with handwriting in lead pencil, reading "A piece of cloth taken off an Egyptian mummy at the opening".
Classification
ARCHAEOLOGY Egyptian
Production date
1900
Measurements
L102 x W55mm
Media/Materials description
Paper
Graphite
Graphite
Signature/Marks
<A piece of cloth taken from off an Egyptian Mummy at the opening & depiction of .........it is expected to be upward of 3000 years old>
<James Murray>
<James Murray>
History and use
in 1934 a small wooden box and lid was donated to the Museum. Inside were thin strips coarse brown cloth. These were mummy wrappings. An old note inside the box read "piece of cloth taken off an Egyptian mummy at the opening". Mummy unwrappings were popular in the 19th Century, carried out in front of fee-paying attendees. It seems the strips of mummy wrappings were obtained at such an event. The box was made in the modern period, perhaps sold with the contents at the unwrapping.
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Registration number
E40025.4
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