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Mummy Board of Henettawy (C), Probable Sister-Wife of High Priest of Amun Smendes
Mummy Board of Tabakmut
Container in the Shape of a Duck
Case for a Victual Pigeon or Dove Mummy
Mummified Duck in Case
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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
From the tomb of Sennedjem (TT 1). Excavated by Gaston 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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