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Fragment of a cartonnage mummy cover

3rd–2nd century B.C.
FindspotAbydos, Egypt
Medium/TechniqueCartonnage
DimensionsOverall: 50 x 31 cm (19 11/16 x 12 3/16 in.)
Credit LineEgypt Exploration Fund by subscription
Accession number02.831a
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTomb equipment
ProvenanceFrom Abydos. 1902: excavated by William Matthew Flinders Petrie for the Egypt Exploration Fund, assigned to the Egypt Exploration Fund in the division of finds by the government of Egypt, received by the MFA through subscription to the Egypt Exploration Fund. (Accession Date: November 17, 1902)
Mummy mask
late 1st century B.C. to early 1st century A.D.
Mummy mask
50 B.C.–50 A.D.
Head end from an anthropoid coffin
1991–1783 B.C., or later
Mummy trappings
305–30 B.C.
Panel A
3rd–2nd century B.C.
Feet from a mummy case
3rd–2nd century B.C.
Coffin fragment
1070–700 B.C.