Coffin and Mummy in the Museum of Tasmania. From the carvings on the coffin lid it was originally thought that the remains were those of an Egyptian princess. However, x-rays in the 1980s and CT scans undertaken in 2011 revealed that the mummy is an adolescent male with traces of hair. He has a bead or amulet lodged in his right eye socket, his right clavicle and neck vertebrae are missing, and there appear to be amulets around his neck. The missing and smashed bones in the chest area of the mummy indicate that it was probably prepared at a much later period of Egyptian history when embalming was in decline. While the outer coffin itself is from a burial dated to the Late Period or early Ptolemaic Period (c. 500–300 BC), the coffin and mummy are probably unrelated. . The inscription on the coffin is a standard funerary prayer and translates as: A boon which the king gives to Osiris-Sokar who is in the coffin that he may give all offerings and all provisions to the Ka of the Osiris, the lady of the house Ankhes
Posted on: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 13:04:09 +0000
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