Digital Giza | Fragment of wood mummy case

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Central panel of lid of wood mummy case, face with lappet wig, hands crossed on breast, (late); painted on thin layer of plaster, flesh painted white, eyebrows and eyelashes black, lower part of panel red, and red on upper part between blue and white bands of wig, necklace and girdle; face badly decayed, painted plaster missing from top of wig and left side, left hand missing. Illustration: No

ID

HUMFA_31-1-458
Department

Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification

Tomb equipment-Mummy trappings
Findspot

Pit G 7832 W, debris from top of pit
Material

Wood, plaster
Dimensions

Width: 26 cm Length: 108 cm Thickness: 2 - 4.5 cm
Credit Line

Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Date of Register Entry

01/28/1931

G 7832
- Site Name Eastern Cemetery

A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 2, page 472
- ID: HUMFA_31-1-458