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Mummy Board of Henettawy (C), Probable Sister-Wife of High Priest of Amun Smendes
Mummy Board of Tabakmut
Mummy Board of Ankhesmut (used by Nesenaset)
Mummy Board of Gautsoshen
Container in the Shape of a Duck
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This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 126
The Mistress of the House, Iineferti, was buried in an anthropoid wooden coffin (86.1.5a, b). A wooden cover, sometimes called a "mummy board," was placed over the body. This mummy board is carved and painted to represent the deceased as if she were alive and dressed in a long white pleated gown. Other objects in the collection that were discovered in the same tomb are numbered 86.1.1–86.1.29
Excavated by Maspero for the Egyptian Antiquities Service in the 1885-1886 season. Sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by the Egyptian government in 1886.
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