Embalmers' Dockets

Unknown

ca. 1479–1458 B.C. · Linen, ink · Egyptian Art

This piece of inscribed linen is part of a sheet 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.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1479–1458 B.C.

Medium

Linen, ink

Department

Egyptian Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1936