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Drawings Egyptian mummy case or coffin

Object number

LDSAL2020.19.90

Artist/Designer/Maker

Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph - Attributed To

Production date

1838

Material

Paper
Ink
Pen

Technique

Handwriting
Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 546mm
Width: 531mm

References

Reference (free text)

T J Pettrigrew, 'Account of the Examination of the Mummy of Pet-Maut-Ioh-Mes, Brought from Egypt by the late John Gosset, Esq. and Deposited in the Museum in the Island of Jersey', Archaeologia 27 (1838): 262-73.Illustration (Engraving), pl. XX, between pp. 264 and 265.
    Pen and ink drawing on paper. This large sheet of paper contains five lines of hieroglyphic inscriptions copied from a mummy case found in Thebes in 1835. Below the hieroglyphics is an English translation. They are dedicatory inscriptions to Osiris and other gods by a person whose name in the original has been defaced, apparently a priestess for whom the mummy case was originally made.
    Pen and ink drawing on paper. This large sheet of paper contains five lines of hieroglyphic inscriptions copied from a mummy case found in Thebes in 1835. Below the hieroglyphics is an English translation. They are dedicatory inscriptions to Osiris and other gods by a person whose name in the original has been defaced, apparently a priestess for whom the mummy case was originally made.

    The mummy case was brought from Egypt to Jersey by John Gosset in 1835. This is one of four drawings of the mummy case and its contents in the Society's 'Eastern Antiquities' album. The others are
    LDSAL2020.19.91, LDSAL2020.19.99, and LDSAL2020.19.101.