The Louvre examine Latvian Mummy

[Kevininabydos]

Here is an interesting but odd piece from Latvia. Google translate does an okay job with the body of the text. I say it is odd because of the stated date for the mummy. The coffin is most definitely NOT Roman, even to my amateur eye it looks to be new kingdom. More likely 22nd dynasty and the bindings on the mummy are wrong for a Roman period burial, again from the photographs they look to be new kingdom. But then what do I know, these are experts from the Louvre!

This is the text from the article in case it won't translate for you:

On Monday, the Art Museum at the "Riga Stock Exchange," after much preparatory work of the Riga Castle be transported only in Latvia, an Egyptian mummy, the museum informed.
Safe on the third floor of the museum, where the mummy is stored, open for inspection on November 16.

Ancient Egyptian mummy in a wooden coffin was brought to Latvia and presented to the museum Dome (now - the Riga Museum of History and Navigation) in 1902. In 1950, after the reorganization of the museum mummy gave to the Museum of Foreign Art.

From 2000 to 2001 in collaboration with the Louvre Museum, the Polish Egyptologists and experts of the Center Marine Medicine in Riga for the first time in the Baltic States conducted a study of the mummy with the most modern computed tomography and radiography.

It turned out that this is a man aged 35 to 40 years, not to do hard work and not bolevshy, who lived in the Roman period and was buried at Deir el-Bahri. In 1898, there were archaeological excavations, after which the mummy came to Cairo Museum.

Here is the link so you can see the photographs:

http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/latvia/v ... o.delfi.lv

[TonyC]

There's also an article in English on the Riga Bourse site which may explain the coffin discrepancy. It says: "The sarcophagus and the cover is made from wood and painted. The cover is from a different sarcophagus that is made earlier; during XXI dynasty (1069 – 945 BC)."

http://www.rigasbirza.lv/en/news/egypti ... iga-bourse

[Kevininabydos]

Now it makes a bit more sense, so it is a recycled coffin but the mummy wrappings still look wrong for a Roman burial. (I wasn't too far off with the dynasty then!! ) There is no interwoven wrapping or gilded mummy mask which was the practice then. Thank you for the extra link Tony.