| Ahmose-Sipair Human Mummy | |
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| Biographical Information | |
|---|---|
| Name(s) | Ahmose-Sipair |
| Age | 6 |
| Sex | Male |
| Status | Son of Amosis I |
| Height | 93 cm |
| Source | |
| Culture | Egyptian |
| Date(s) | Discovered in 1860 |
| Site | Deir el-Bahari |
| Current Location | |
| Location | Cairo Museum |
| Catalog # | CG61064 |
Found in the Cache DB320 at Deir el-Bahari in 1881, Ahmose-Sipair was the son of Ahmose and Ahmes-Nefertari of the XVIII Dynasty. He died at the age of 5 or 6 years.
Mummification[]
The mummy of Ahmose-Sapair was found in a child’s coffin of 18th Dynasty type. It was unwrapped on September 9th, 1905 and found with barley stalks with the wrappings placed there as a symbol of immortality. This mummy looks very distorted.
Pathology[]
Not much remained of the original mummy except for a few bones and the distorted skin. The skin was light brown in color, and was still soft and pliable when first unwrapped. The boy had a full set of deciduous teeth, indicating that he was about five or six years old when he died.
G. E. Smith, who unwrapped the mummy, noted that it appeared to have been circumcised, and suggested that this was an unusual feature in boys of that age from the 18th Dynasty, who were typically circumcised at puberty.
Additional[]
Originally probably buried at Dra Abu’l Nega. The Papyrus Abbot (3, 13) mentions an inspection of the tomb of Ahmose-Sapair in Year 16 of Ramesses IXth, 3 3ht 18. At that time, the tomb was discovered to be undisturbed. Reeves argues that, at some unspecified time after this inspection, the child's mummy was moved into the k3y of Inhapi along with other early 18th Dynasty burials. He dates Ahmose-Sipair's transfer into DB 320 to sometime after year 11 of Shoshenq I.
External Links[]
http://members.tripod.com/anubis4_2000/mummypages1/Early18.htm#Sipair
http://www3.lib.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/eos/eos_page.pl?DPI=100&callnum=DT57.C2_vol59&ident=XIX