Ancient Egyptian mummy case from Illahun Faiyum dated 945 – 715 BC

Cartonnage full body case of the Divine Father, Duaneteref. Made of linen & with mud, plastered & painted. White background with decoration in red, blue, white & black. With attached wood face mask. Decorated with painted face, wig, floral collar, red mummy braces and painted on hands. Decoration on the mummy case includes (on the chest) a winged ram-headed falcon flanked by male deities and below a crouching figure of Anubis, above one vertical line of painted inscription. The inscription is flanked by falcons with one wing outstretched and one wing down, deities and girdles of Isis and winged sacred eyes at the base.

Petrie gives the name on the cartonnage mummy case as Neter-kheper-ra, but although now not well preserved it was written as Duaneteref (see Petrie, Kahun, Gurob & Hawara, pl.XXV,7 – for the inscription on the mummy case.

Ancient Egyptian mummy case from Illahun
 Faiyum dated 945 – 715 BC

Object details

  • Reference: BOLMG:1892.7.2.b
  • Material: cartonnage paint plaster
  • Culture: Dynasty 22
  • Period: Third Intermediate Period
  • Excavator: W.M.F. Petrie
  • Dated: 945 - 715 BC
  • Object name: mummy case
  • Dimensions: Length: 1800mm , Width: 480mm , Depth: 300mm
  • Published references: Petrie IKG pp.24 - 28 Kahun Gurob & Hawara pl.XXV 7 J Taylor "Coffins as evidence for a 'North-South divide' in the 22nd - 25th Dynasties" in G. P. F. Broekman, R. J. Demaree and O. E. Kaper (eds), The Libyan Period in Egypt (Leiden, 2009) 375
  • Site: Illahun
  • Latitude: 29.233333
  • Longitude: 30.966667