Mummy Cover
Pectoral
E352
From: Egypt | Illahun
Curatorial Section: Egyptian
| Object Number | E352 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Ptolemaic |
| Provenience | Egypt | Illahun |
| Period | Ptolemaic Period | Thirty-Third Dynasty |
| Date Made | 200 BCE |
| Section | Egyptian |
| Materials | Linen | Plaster | Pigment |
| Iconography | Nut | Deceased | Anubis | Isis | Nephthys |
| Description | Cartonnage Breast Cover for a mummy showing the sky goddess Nut with out-stretched wings. Below Nut is a scene of the deceased lying on a funerary bier being attended to by Anubis. On the left and right are the goddesses Isis and Nephthys. |
| Height | 39 cm |
| Width | 31.5 cm |
| Thickness | 0.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from William Flinders Petrie, 1890 |
| Other Number | ES352 - Original Number |
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