Mummified Man

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Arts of Africa

Ptolemaic Period (about 2nd–1st century BCE)

Egyptian

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Africa

Artist: Ancient Egyptian
Title: Mummified Man
Place: Egypt (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 200 BCE–30 BCE
Medium: Linen, cartonnage, human remains
Dimensions: 38.1 × 175.3 × 49.5 cm (15 × 69 × 19 1/2 in.) (appro×.)
Credit Line: Gift of Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson
Reference Number: 1893.15
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“Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 15.
Pickering, R.B. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1990 Sept. Volume 83, p. 49-55.
Pickering, R.B. Uses of Forensic Anthropology, Boca Raton, 1997. p. 83, 84 (ill.).
Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 21.
Mary Greuel, “Solving a Mummy Mystery,” Art Institute of Chicago blog post, published March 31, 2014:
https://www.artic.edu/articles/459/solving-a-mummy-mystery
Ashley Arico and Cybele Tom, “The Secrets of a Mummy Emerge,” Art Institute of Chicago blog post, published April 20, 2020:
https://www.artic.edu/articles/819/the-secrets-of-a-mummy-emerge
Clara Granzatto, “The Binders That Tie: Proteins in Paint,” Art Institute of Chicago blog post, published January 19, 2021:
https://www.artic.edu/articles/896/the-binders-that-tie-proteins-in-paint
Clara Granzotto, Amra Aksamija, Gerjen H. Tinnevelt, Viktoriia Turkina, and Ken Sutherland. 2024. “New Insight from MALDI-TOF MS and Multivariate Data Analysis on the Botanical Origin of Polysaccharide-Based Paint Binders in Ancient Egypt.” Analytical Methods 16 (18): 2959–71.

Long term loan to the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, 1959-2007.

Émile Brugsch (1842-1930), Bulaq Museum and Egyptian Antiquities Service, Cairo; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1893; price reimbursed by Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson, 1893.

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