Plaster painted mask and cartonnage apron with column of text (Ptolemaic). Wrapped with bandages.Plaster face is damaged with area of loss, fabric bindings broken, surface cracks and dirt. Cartonage is cracked and fragmenting. X rays do not reveal any skeletal material. 

Compare with Raven and Taconis, 'Egyptian Mummies' (Turnhout, 2005) no. 22, pp. 165-6. 

Woodcut of object made by Llewellynn Jewitt FSA for Joseph Mayer. Possibly ex Joseph Sams collection. 

CONDITION NOTE 1998: Gesso damaged with area of loss, fabric bindings broken, cracked surface, surface dirt, cartonage is cracked and fragmenting.

Pseudo Mummy | National Museums Liverpool

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Plaster painted mask and cartonnage apron with column of text (Ptolemaic). Wrapped with bandages.Plaster face is damaged with area of loss, fabric bindings broken, surface cracks and dirt. Cartonage is cracked and fragmenting. X rays do not reveal any skeletal material. Compare with Raven and Taconis, 'Egyptian Mummies' (Turnhout, 2005) no. 22, pp. 165-6. Woodcut of object made by Llewellynn Jewitt FSA for Joseph Mayer. Possibly ex Joseph Sams collection. CONDITION NOTE 1998: Gesso damaged with area of loss, fabric bindings broken, cracked surface, surface dirt, cartonage is cracked and fragmenting.

Pseudo Mummy

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