| Hatemui Human Mummy | |
| |
| Biographical Information | |
|---|---|
| Name(s) | Hatemui |
| Age | 9-13 |
| Sex | male |
| Status | elite |
| Height | unknown |
| Source | |
| Culture | ancient Egypt |
| Date(s) | 350 BCE to 305 BCE |
| Site | Unknown |
| Current Location | |
| Location | Swindon Museum and Art Gallery |
| Catalog # | unknown |
The mummy of the "boy priest" Hatemui is a Late Period Egyptian mummy. The mummy has been held at the Swindon Museum and Art Gallery since 1930.
Biography[]
Hatemui was the boy of a wealthy family of approximately the 31st dynasty, likely buried in a cemetery at Thebes. His mother's name, Tashentnetaihet, is known from inscriptions on his painted sycamore coffin.
Mummification[]
The brain was removed in this mummy.
Studies[]
The mummy has been X-rayed.
Pathology[]
The X-ray studies revealed (possibly postmortem) fractures to Hatemui's skull.
Additional Info[]
Hatemui's mummy is believed to have been collected by an Englishman in the early 19th century - an aristocrat on the Grand Tour - and was first recorded in England in a house in Devizes.
The mummy was acquired by collector Charles Gore (1866-1951), who donated his collection to Swindon in 1919. Gore was appointed curator of the first Swindon museum, a former Unitarian chapel in Regent Circus. The chapel proved too small, and the collection was moved to Apsley House, Bath Road, the current site of the Swindon Museum and Art Gallery. Hatemui was moved to that site in 1930.
Beginning in September 2001, the mummy was exhibited in a tomb-themed display room.
A move to a museum in downtown Swindon is planned.
External Links[]
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
References[]
[1] The Mummy Returns http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10938607.The_Mummy_returns/>