NINE EGYPTIAN LINEN MUMMY BANDAGES FOR HARPAKHEM

LATE PERIOD TO ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 664-2ND CENTURY A.D.

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NINE EGYPTIAN LINEN MUMMY BANDAGES FOR HARPAKHEM
LATE PERIOD TO ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 664-2ND CENTURY A.D.
Longest: 29 1/16 in. (73.8 cm.) long

Provenance

Antiquities, Christie's, London, 23 April 1980, lot 170.
with Kenneth W. Rendell, Newton, Massachusetts, acquired from the above, 1980.
Private Collection, U.S.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 2015.

Literature

R.A. Caminos, "The Rendells Mummy Bandages," The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, vol. 68, 1982, pp. 145-155, pls. XV-XVII.

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Lot Essay

These bandages bear hieratic inscriptions penned in black ink, with excerpts from four chapters of the Book of the Dead (158, 160, 163 and 164). The inscriptions indicate that the linens once belonged to a man named Harpakhem, son of Taamun.

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