Mummies in Rhode Island (1)
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The Rhode Island School of Design Museum Rhode Island School of Design 244 Benefit Street Providence, RI 02903-2723 401-454-6500 Nes-min on the RISD site Mummy and Coffin of Nes-Min Second Prophet of Min and Khonsu Father, Second Prophet of Min Mother, Sistrum player Ptolemaic Period ca. 250 B.C. Coffin: Wood, stucco, polychrome mummy: Linen, cartonnage, human remains His cartonnage mask is in the British Museum. Certainly from Akhmim Provenance: Museum Appropriation and Mary B. Jackson Fund 38.206.2. Lady Meux, Theobald's Park; William Randolph Hearst. The trustees of the British Museum declined the bequest of Lady Meux's Egyptian collection, £2,250. It was then sold at public auction, where Hearst acquired the Mummy and Coffin of Nes-Min, and the pair statue of Nebsen and Nebet-ta, now in the Brooklyn Musuem. Publication: Banks, Miriam A. "The Mummy of Nes-min; The Coffin of Nes-min." Bulletin of the Rhode Island School of Design 27, no.1 (1939); 21-35 Winkes/RISD, 1974 p.8 The coffin of Nes-Min contains 16 registers of text which list his titles and geneaology. His coffin design indicates that he lived at Akhmim in Middle-Egypt during the Ptolemaic period. |
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