The mummy and her coffin and cartonnage were purchased on the Egyptian antiquities market by George Reisner, for Phoebe Hearst in the first decade of the 20th Century. The site of Akhmim, from where the mummy came, was excavated in the 1880’s by Gaston Maspero, was widely looted for the antiquities market at the time.
Mummification[]
The woman's brain had been removed through her nose, her heart was left in the body, but all the other organs had been removed, placed in a sack and reinserted into the body. The mummy was made in the traditional Egyptian way, The mummy was tightly wrapped and top surface covered in black resin.
Studies[]
She was likely from the middle class. The Mummy case has a black with gilt face, black and gold decorations and is inscribed: coffin of Iws-n-min
Pathology[]
The unnamed woman was probably middle-aged, as evidenced by arthritic changes in the vertebrae.
Additional[]
The coffin was marked with the male name Iws-n-min and until the CT scan in 2009 revealed the mummy was female, this was the name used.
External Links[]
https://3dcoffins.berkeley.edu/coffins/pahma-6-19927
https://portal.hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/catalog/e0ff8444-a58c-46da-9ded-49482d2a199c