Skeleton of Meresankh
Skeleton of Meresankh; a few bones missing.
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- EMC_JE_60540
- Alternate IDs
- JE_60540; EMC_JE_60540; HUMFA_27-6-19; 27-6-19
- Department
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Classification
- Human remains
- Entry Date
- 06/05/1927
- Title
- Skeleton of Meresankh
- Medium
- Bone
- Credit Line
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Provenance
- G 7530-7540: pit G 7530 A, inside sarcophagus (half of jarwbone with teeth in place, was lying on floor in debris, thrown by thieves)
- Bibliography
- Dunham, Dows, and William Kelly Simpson. The Mastaba of Queen Mersyankh III (G 7530-7540). Giza Mastabas 1. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1974, p. 23, pl. 14. Habicht, Michael E., Patrick E. Eppenberger, Francesco Maria Galassi, Frank J. Ruhli, and Maciej Hennebert. "Queen Meresankh III-The Oldest Case of Bilateral Sinus Syndrome (C. 2620/10-2570 BC)." Anthropologie 56/2 (2018), pp. 103-113.
