Object Details
- Donor Name
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Site Name
- Deir El-Bahri (Deir el-Bahari)
- From card: ""From Thebes, Deir el Bahri, Tomb 65, Tomb (2 pts) of Merytamen. XVIII Dynasty Museum Excavations 1928-29. Lid not found with basket. Just under the ridge for the lid and knotted through the sides of the basket are the ends of 2-ply linen cords, probably representing 4 loops which met on top of the lid and were sealed, to hold the lid in place. Contents: 11 small and 3 large bundles of mummified meats; mass of rags etc., (floor sweepings) among which were the 2 human-shaped original bandages of Merytaman [Merytamen, Meritamun], folded up. Bibl.: H. E. Winloch [sic, should be Winlock], Meryet-Amun, 1932, p. 34, p. 46, p. 76, No. 44B, pl, XXXIX A." No contents in basket and base was detached from sides when received at U.S.N.M."
- Palm leaf (2 leaf).
- Record Last Modified
- 30 Jul 2020
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Egyptian, New Kingdom Period, Dynasty XVIII
- Accession Date
- 19 Jan 1959
- Accession Number
- 223500
- USNM Number
- A422999-0
- Object Type
- Basket
- Place
- Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Archaeology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8175522
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3187afabc-497a-4b25-a867-415f58927249
