Mummy board of Iw-s-hesw-Mwt
This Egyptian mummy board is made from wood and plaster and decorated with brightly coloured images. The colour pigments include ‘Egyptian blue’ and Orpiment, which in its raw state is toxic. Traces of small panels of hieroglyphic text tell us this woman was a Chantress of Amun from Thebes. For nearly 200 years this woman was thought to be called Au-Set-Shu-Mut. But recent research has revealed we have been calling her by the wrong name. She was actually called Iw-s-hesw-Mwt.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- A417
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- North Africa
- Collector Excavator
- Fuller, Fitzherbert, Rev
- Material
- woodpigmentplaster
- Common Name
- mummy board of Iw-s-hesw-Mwt
- Simple Name
- mummy board, human remains
- Period Classification
- 3rd Intermediate Period (Dynasties 21-25) - 1070-661 BC
- Production Country
- Egypt
- Production Year Low
- -1050
- Production Year High
- -950