Digital Giza | Cloth mummy wrappings

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2220

Linen from wrappings of mummy in wood coffin 33-4-21; two pieces inscribed in hieratic. [Female mummy with arms, legs, fingers, and toes individually wrapped; wads and pads of linen inserted between layers of linen wrappings to give body more life-like appearance; face, neck, and breasts molded from linen and wet resin; mid-calf-length v-neck tunic placed over body.]
Illustration: No

ID: HUMFA_33-4-22
Alternate IDs: HUMFA_33-4-22; 33-4-22
Department: Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification: Tomb equipment-Mummy trappings
Title: Cloth mummy wrappings
Medium: Cloth (linen)
Credit Line: Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance: Pit G 2220 B, [chamber] I
Bibliography: Markowitz, Yvonne J., Joyce L. Haynes, and Rita E. Freed. Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids: Highlights from the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expedition. Boston: MFA Publications, 2002, p. 68, cat. 16. Manuelian, Peter Der. Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis. Publications of the Pennsylvania–Yale Expedition to Egypt 7. New Haven and Philadelphia: Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2003, p. 156, figs. 232, 233. Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, pp. 452-453.
Remarks: Two pieces of linen with hieratic inscriptions accessioned as MFA 33.1017.1 and MFA 33.1017.2
Problems/Questions: MFA accession numbers verified