Mummification Bandage of Userwer

ca. 399-343 BCE (Late Period, 29th-30th dynasty)

28.5 cm 6.5 cm

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Linen bandages were used during the mummification process from the Late through the Ptolemaic period, ca. 6th-2nd centuries BCE. They were usually decorated with spells and sometimes vignettes from the "Book of the Dead" in order to deliver the desired magical protection for t...

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[Found in the cemetery of Giza by an expedition of Egyptian archaeologists in the 1950s]; Professor Dr. Abd el Monem Abubakr, Cairo, Giza University, 1950s, by discovery; Professor Dr. Hans Goedicke, Baltimore, 1957, by official gift [for his assistance in the deciphering of some texts from the excavation at Giza]; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.
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