Inner Coffin Box of Ditamunpaseneb

Box of the inner anthropoid coffin of the ‘lady of the house’ Ditamunpaseneb. She was the daughter of Yufa and Paankhas and was married to Namenkhamun. Inside and out the coffin is covered with spells from the Book of the Dead. Height of the pedestal when upright is 125 mm, length 320 mm. A mummified body was removed from the coffins of Ditamunpaseneb, daughter of Yufa, on 30th March 1903 and unwrapped before an audience at the Liverpool Free Public Museums (now World Museum) by museum director Henry Ogg Forbes. According to the Museum Annual Report for 1903 Henry Ogg Forbes, gave a lecture and unwrapped a mummy: “At the lecture of the 30th, the mummy of a lady named Auf-aa of the XXVI. Dynasty (660-590BC) was unwrapped before the audience to illustrate his lecture on ‘The Mummy’. The face was found in a remarkable state of preservation, the hands crossed upon the breast, but the flesh had apparently been removed from the limbs before enswathement of the body. The beautifully manufactured cloth in which it was wrapped, however, had been used for another mummy at a much earlier date.