Embalmers' Dockets

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This piece of inscribed linen is part of a bandage used in the wrapping of the mummy of a middle-aged man. It was probably inscribed by the embalmer, as were four other pieces of linen used in the embalming (36.3..179, 181–.183). The hand writing on all of the pieces is the same. The man, whose name was not recorded, was buried on the hillside below the tomb of Senenmut (36.3.252), TT 71 in the Sheikh Abd el-Qurna cemetery in Western Thebes.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.

Metropolitan Museum of Art