Floral Garlands of Nauny
Third Intermediate Period
Nauny bore the titles Mistress of the House, Chantress of Amun-Re, and King’s Daughter of his body. She was most likely the child of the High Priest of Amun, Painedjem I (ca. 1050 B.C.), who was de facto ruler of the Theban area in the early 21st Dynasty. Like many of the members of her family, she was buried at Deir el-Bahri, in an earlier tomb used by a consort of the New Kingdom pharaoh Amenhotep II (died ca. 1400 B.C.), Meritamun. In her seventies at the time of her death, she was short and fat, but retained some of her teeth and most of her hair. Most of her tomb furniture had originally been made for her mother, a Mistress of the House and Chantress of Amen-Re named Tentabekhenet.
This floral collar, made of persea leaves and lotus petals sewn with a double running stich over thin strips of palm leaf, was found over the left breast of her wrapped mummy.
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