egypt-museum:Mummy of Queen HenuttawyThe whole body of Queen Henuttawy’s mummy was colored in
egypt-museum:Mummy of Queen HenuttawyThe whole body of Queen Henuttawy’s mummy was colored in yellow, while the cheeks and lips were painted red to improve her appearance. The head is adorned with an artificial wig made of strands of black string; she was given stone eyes. Her mummy was found in the Deir el-Bahari cache (“DB320”).Her embalming wound was covered with a gold plaque that bears the wadjet eye and the queen’s name and titles. Her body exhibits many of the new techniques that developed for mummification in the Third Intermediate Period, notably the subcutaneous packing of linen and sawdust to preserve the shape of the body. In this case, however, the face of the mummy had burst due to being too tightly packed, it was restored to its original form in 1974.Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 26204; CG 61090 -- source link
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