Mummy, cartonnage of, between 850 and 750 BCE

  • Egyptian

Painted linen and sizing

  • Overall: 69 × 16 1/2 × 12 1/2 inches (175.3 × 41.9 × 31.8 cm)

Gift of Frederick Stearns

90.1S11800.2

Frederick Stearns [1831-1907] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1890-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bisulca, Christina, Ellen Hanspach-Bernal, Aaron Steele, and Caroline Roberts. "Deconstructing an Ancient Egyptian Mummy Portrait," Bulletin of the DIA 95, no. 1 (2021): p. 9 (ill. fig. 2b) [listed as 90.1S11800.1 but image is of 90.1S11800.2]. Johnston, Kea M. "Uneen Hands: Coffin Production at Akhmim, Dynasties 21-30." Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 2022.

Egyptian, Mummy, cartonnage of, between 850 and 750 BCE, painted linen and sizing. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Frederick Stearns, 90.1S11800.2.