Contracted body of a man which has been naturally mummified

Contracted body of a man which has been naturally mummified

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is the mummified body of a man. He was buried on his left side in a contracted position, a posture often chosen for the dead in the Early Dynastic Period and early Old Kingdom. The body, attached at the time to a wooden bier (99.3.6 [D]), was donated to the Museum by Theodore M. Davis in 1899. Davis reported having bought this ensemble from Mohammed Mohassib in Luxor. When it arrived in the Museum the curators felt that the body and bier did not belong together, so they were separated. The bier was de-accessioned to the Smithsonian Institute in the 1950s.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.