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An Egyptian human-headed pseudo falcon mummy

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Lot 204
An Egyptian human-headed pseudo falcon mummy

Sold for £ 6,000 (US$ 7,481) inc. premium

Antiquities

28 Nov 2018, 10:30 GMT

London, New Bond Street

An Egyptian human-headed pseudo falcon mummy
Ptolemaic-Roman Period, circa 300 B.C.-200 A.D.
The tightly-wrapped anthropoid mummy with a human head, wearing a nemes headdress and a broad collar, with remains of red and yellow pigment on the collar, 35.5cm high

Footnotes

  • Provenance:
    Private collection, Europe, 1970s.
    with Antiquarium Ltd., New York, 1991 (Ancient Treasures II, New York, 2004, p.3).
    Private collection, North America, acquired from the above.

    An x-ray of the present lot shows that there are no skeletal remains within the mummy. The use of pseudo animal mummies, i.e. mummies containing only a few bones, feathers, or no remains at all and only mud, sticks or sand, has been suggested to be an ancient solution to a shortage of the necessary animals for full mummification. Usually such pseudo mummies have a falcon head; the human-headed variety is much rarer, and perhaps makes reference to Imsety, the human-headed Son of Horus. For similar pseudo mummies, each without falcon heads, see S. Ikram, Divine Creatures, Cairo, 2005, p.220, fig. 9.10, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 90.6.107.
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