Mummy of a Child

Place CreatedEgypt, Africa

CultureEgyptian

PeriodLate Period, Dynasty 25 - Dynasty 26

Date722-525 BCE

MediumHuman remains, linen

Credit LineCharlotte Lichirie Collection of Egyptian Art

Dimensions7 7/8 x 138 x 6 5/16 in. (20 x 350.5 x 16 cm)

Object number1999.001.001

Label TextAlthough the cause of death cannot be determined, this mummy does have one very interesting feature: the legs of the mummy are missing just below the knees. The absence of any signs of healing suggests that the damage was postmortem.
Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, July 18, 1999 - January 17, 2000
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, October 6, 2001 - 2005
Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee, Florida, August 22-November 27, 2005
"Napoleon in Egypt", Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia, January 13-March 26, 2006
Published ReferencesPeter Lacovara, "The New Galleries of Egyptian and Near Eastern Art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum," Minerva (September/October, 2001), 9-16.
Peter Lacovara and Betsy Teasley Trope, The Realm of Osiris: Mummies, Coffins, and Ancient Egyptian Funerary Art in the Michael C. Carlos Museum (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2001), 41, 55.

ProvenanceEx coll. Niagara Falls Museum, Niagara Falls, Canada. Purchased by MCCM from William Jamieson (1954-2011) [Golden Chariot Productions], Toronto, Canada.

Status

Not on view

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