Fragment of a painted cartonnage mummy covering. A rectangular panel with an image of the human-headed deity Imsety, one of the Four Sons of Horus. He is depicted in profile, facing right, wrapped like a mummy, wearing a collar and long blue wig, and holding before him a long folded red cloth. Beside his head black painted hieroglyphs spell out his name. Painted in red, blue, black and white on a yellow ground enclosed in a border of coloured rectangles. The back is stiffened plain linen. From the same burial as M11174b and M11174c. 

CONDITION NOTE 1998: Some damage to edges, quite a lot of surface loss on the figure and at top right corner, surface dirt, previous mount of carboard stuck to the back in places.

Mummy Covering | National Museums Liverpool

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Fragment of a painted cartonnage mummy covering. A rectangular panel with an image of the human-headed deity Imsety, one of the Four Sons of Horus. He is depicted in profile, facing right, wrapped like a mummy, wearing a collar and long blue wig, and holding before him a long folded red cloth. Beside his head black painted hieroglyphs spell out his name. Painted in red, blue, black and white on a yellow ground enclosed in a border of coloured rectangles. The back is stiffened plain linen. From the same burial as M11174b and M11174c. CONDITION NOTE 1998: Some damage to edges, quite a lot of surface loss on the figure and at top right corner, surface dirt, previous mount of carboard stuck to the back in places.

Mummy Covering

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