Funerary equipment of Queen Isa-em-Kheb:embalmed offerings

A chest made of papyrus leaves, with offerings of embalmed leg of mutton and calf's head, as discovered by Professor Maspero at Thebes in Upper Egypt, during his investigation in April 1881. Egyptologist Ameila Edwards described these artefacts in the accompanying article in the Illustrated London News, The large hamper, on being opened, proved to contain the funereal repast of Queen Isa-em-Kheb. This repast consisted of geese, legs of mutton and gazelle, calves heads etc, all mummified and bandaged

Picture No

10269808

Media ID

46068030

Size

3500px x 3994px (2.3MB)

Credit

Source

Engraving after photographs executed for the ILN by Herr Emil Brugsch, keeper of the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, Boo

Date

Ancient Egyptian (21st Dynasty )