Mummy wrapping
In the 19th century it was common for Egyptian mummies to be unwrapped at elaborate social gatherings. This fragment of cloth is from a mummy unwrapped in Bristol in the 1830s.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- A1752/2
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- North Africa
- Collector Excavator
- Jones, Winslow, Mr
- Material
- textilelinen?
- Common Name
- mummy wrapping
- Simple Name
- mummy wrapping
