Mummy Covering

1973.2.445

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Fragments of cartonnage covering placed over of a mummy that formed a collar (?) with falcon-head terminals. Dimensions are for largest piece. CONDITION NOTE (1998): Incomplete, cracked surface, surface dirt. Wellcome Historical Medical Museum accession no. 243708. 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".