Mummy of anonymous male

Mummy of anonymous male

As part of Koller’s collection the mummy was purchased in a double wooden sarcophagus of the wife Kareset, the daughter Padi-Ptah from the Ptolemaic Period (332 – 30 BC). The sarcophagus is painted with the common iconography and engraved with protection spells and containing a list of offerings “to the soul of the lady of the house of Kareset”.

The mummy of the anonymous male provides an insight into the mummification technology at the time of the third transitory period when mummification reached its peak. This fact was confirmed by comparing this mummy to the other mummies of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb. In that procedure, internal organs were first ...