Embalmers' Dockets
This piece of inscribed linen is part of a sheet used in the wrapping of the mummy of a middle-aged man. It was probably inscribed by the embalmer, as were four other pieces of linen used in the embalming (36.3.179–.181, .183). The hand writing on all of the pieces is the same. The man, whose name was not recorded, was buried on the hillside below the tomb of Senenmut (36.3.252), TT 71 in the Sheikh Abd el-Qurna cemetery in Western Thebes.
Artwork Details
- Title: Embalmers' Dockets
- Period: New Kingdom
- Dynasty: Dynasty 18
- Reign: Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III
- Date: ca. 1479–1458 B.C.
- Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, below the Tomb of Senenmut (TT 71), burial 1, on mummy, MMA excavations, 1935–36
- Medium: Linen, ink
- Dimensions: L. 16.5 cm (6 1/2 in.); W. 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.)
Framed: 19.7 cm (7 3/4 in.); W. 12.1 cm (4 3/4 in.) - Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1936
- Object Number: 36.3.182
- Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art
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