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Floral Garlands of Nauny

Third Intermediate Period
ca. 1051–1002 BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 126
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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Floral Garlands of Nauny
  • Period: Third Intermediate Period
  • Dynasty: Dynasty 21
  • Reign: reign of Psusennes I
  • Date: ca. 1051–1002 BCE
  • Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb of Meritamun (TT 358, MMA 65), burial of Nauny, on the breast of Nauny's mummy and on the floor of the first corridor, MMA excavations, 1928–29
  • Medium: Persea leaves, lotus petals, palm leaves, linen thread
  • Dimensions: Present approximate dimensions: L. 60 × W. 25 cm (23 5/8 × 9 13/16 in.)
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1930
  • Object Number: 30.3.33a
  • Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art

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