New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.

Funerary object

Artist Unknown

DateLate-Ptolemaic Periods, 730-30 B.C.

MediumWood

DimensionsOverall: 18 in. (45.7 cm)

ClassificationsEgyptian

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number81.171

Terms

Funerals
Red
Black
Yellow

Collections

Ancient Mediterranean Art

On View

Not on view

DescriptionFigurine of a mummy standing on a cubic base and leaning against a back pillar (formerly inscribed). The body is wrapped in a red shroud on which runs one yellow band with hieroglyphs from the chest to the feet. The mummy is wearing a broad collar, yellow with black spots and four black horizontal lines on the edge. The head is painted red, with long black hair hanging in the back and over each shoulder upon the chest. On its top in the middle of the cranium is a crater-like hole that can be an accident or perhaps the place where a headdress was set.