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Carter No.: 317a(2)

Handlist description: Mummy of a child ritualistically wrapped

Card/Transcription No.: 317a-07


317, A. (2) MUMMY OF A CHILD (Examination by Derry) 1

This is the body of a prematurely-born child, probably female. (See 317, B.(2)).

The L. from the vertex of the head to the heels 25.75 cm.

The body had been carefully wrapped in linen, but this had already been removed. (I unwrapped this mummy before Derry saw it - the wrapping had been carried out in with the XVIIIth Dynasty method.) There is no abdominal incision and no indication as to how the body was preserved.

The skin is of a greyish colour, very shrunken and brittle, and the clavicles, ribs and costal cartilages are all plainly seen through it. On the limbs it has become pressed into folds owing to the loss by dessication of the natural fulness produced by the underlying tissues, and here also the bones of the hands are clearly defined.

Card no. 317a-07 relating to Carter no. 317a(2)
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