Mummies in Illinois (43)
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Chicago (40)
The Field Museum of Natural History (33) 1400 S Lake Shore Drive Chicago, IL 60605 Reported to have 33 complete mummies and 5 heads. (Thanks to information sent to me by Carter Lupton). When I visited some years ago I counted 21 (including the "natural" Predynastic mummy) along with some mummy parts that were then on view. S.J. Wolfe's EMINA database generates 41 matches for The Field. 30007 A woman in her 40's with curly hair
11517 Minirdis a boy from the late period* 30005 Chenet-a-a F adult TIP 30025 Pa-di-Amun M child TIP 30000 Djed-iu-Mutes-ankh F adult TIP 30006 Unknown F adult Pt-R: 1st mummy acquired by the Field, 1894 31838 Unknown M adult Late 30002 Udja-ren-es F adult Late 30017 Hori M child Late 31832 Horwa M adult 25** 31842 coffin of Hor-em-akhet F adult Late 30019 2 children in coffin Pt-R 30020 Unknown F adult Pt-R 30009 Unknown F adult Pt-R 30003 Unknown M child Pt-R 30004 Unknown F child Pt-R 30022 Muthetepet F adult Pt 105214 Unknown F adult Pt-R 30008 Unknown F adult Pt-R 111522 Unknown child Pt 30018 Unknown M child Pt-R 31736 Unknown F adult Naq1 Mummy Parts at the Field 1. bandaged foot 2. Partially wrapped feet (111470) Mummies: Friday, March 16, 2018 to Sunday, April 21, 2019 Opening the Vaults: Mummies, 2012 TIP=Third Intermediate Period (1100-650 B.C.E.)
Pt=Ptolemaic Pt-R for Ptolemaic-Roman A number indicates Dynasty Naq1=Naqada1 A predynastic Period accession # name sex Age Period *
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The Oriental Institute Museum (5)
1155 East 58th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 USA (773) 702-9520 - Museum Office http://oi.uchicago.edu/ 5 Mummies and one predynastic burial Meresamun (OIM 10797) Third Intermediate Period Dynasty 22, ca. 950 B.C. Purchased in Egypt, in 1920 by James Henry Breasted, the founder of the Oriental Institute. The Art Institute of Chicago (2)
111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 60603-6404 http://www.artic.edu/ Mummy of Paankhenamun His name means "The one who lives for the god Amun." He was a security guard at the temple of Amun during the early Third Intermediate Period (22nd Dynasty). Beautifully painted cartonnage case. You can take an excellent computerized study tour of the mummy on a terminal around the corner from mummy. Link: Interpretive Resource, Mummy Case of Paankhenamun Wenuhotep returned to Art Institute in 2007. Evanston (1)
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary (1)
Mummy of a 5 year old girl from Hawara. Known as the Hibbard mummy, the mummy with the painted face, or the Hawara Portrait Mummy No. 4. She is currently part of an exhibition at Northwestern University "Paint the Eyes Softer: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt" Running from Jan 13, through April 22, 2018. Thanks to a Particle Accelerator, we can see inside this ancient mummy This is the mummy that was formerly at the Seabury-Western Theological Seminary.
Naperville Central High School (1)
Mummy of a child, late Ptolemaic. Was donated to the school in the 1940's, and spent many years in an attic in the school until being rediscovered in 1975 by a teacher. It was restored in the 90's at the Oriental Institute, and was featured on an episode of the National Geographic Channel's Mummy Roadshow. Goes by the name of Butch. Said to be the only high school with a mummy, which is highly probable. Fox 32 Visits NCHS Mummy Urbana-Champaign (1)
Spurlock Museum of World Cultures University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The World Heritage Museum called a mini-Smithsonian is located on the fourth floor of Lincoln Hall. Its holdings number more than 25,000 objects relating to the past. One of which is the mummy of an unknown child which was acquired by the museum in 1989 from a Chicago antiquities dealer. It has been determined that the child (sex still unknown) was 7-9 years of age at death. He was of mixed race and belonged to the Greco-Roman aristocracy. He dates to the 2nd Century A.D. He lived in the section of North West Egypt called "The Fayum." Link: Collections search keyword "mummy." Egyptian Mummification |
