Mummy cloth

Museum number:
5-15697
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Accession number:
Acc.4037
Description:
Mummy cloth, fragment, linen; painted dark red geometric X design with black dots in spaces between lines; Length ca 57.0 cm x Width 24.5 cm.
Donor:
Jeff Stewart
Collection place:
Tombs of the Nobles, Theban Hills, Upper Egypt
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa, Egypt [Cat Card: "Found in Luxor, in one of the Tombs of the Nobles above Queen Hatshepsut's Temple," per donor.]
Culture or time period:
Late Period of ancient Egypt (664–332 BC), Ptolemaic dynasty (332–31 BC), and Roman Empire (27 BC–395 AD)
Collector:
Jeff Stewart
Collection date:
January 1982
Materials:
Linen (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Mummies (bodies)
Department:
Ancient Egypt
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mummy cloth, accession number 5-15697, described as Mummy cloth, fragment, linen; painted dark red geometric X design with black dots in spaces between lines; Length ca 57.0 cm x Width 24.5 cm.

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