Mummy Covering

1973.2.438

Information

Inscribed band from a cartonnage covering placed over the legs of a mummy. Compare with Michael C. Carlos Museum accession no. 2018.010.639. CONDITION NOTE (1998): Incomplete, surface cracks, surface loss, surface dirt, chipped. Wellcome Historical Medical Museum accession no. 2437xx. Purchased at Sotheby's, London, 22 October 1934 (Mansoor Abd Essayid collection) Lot 145/31 "Two Masks; four Collars; a Winged Nut; a winged Scarabaeus; eight Figures of funerary Deities; eight Fragments of Bands; and five Sandals, in cartonnage painted and gilt".