Coffin and Mummy Board of Pa-seba-khai-en-ipet. Egypt, from Thebes. Third Intermediate Period, circa 1070–945 B.C.E. Wood, painted, 76 3/8 x 21 5/8 x 12 5/8 in. (194 x 55 x 32 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 08.480.2a–c
Long-Term Installation
Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor
This installation of more than 170 objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-famous holdings of ancient Egyptian material explores the complex rituals related to the practice of mummification and the Egyptian belief that the body must be preserved in order to ensure eternal life. On view are the mummy of the priest Thothirdes; the mummy of Hor, encased in an elaborately painted cartonnage; and a nearly twenty-five-foot-long Book of the Dead scroll. Also in the installation are canopic jars, used to store the vital organs of mummies, as well as several shabties, small figurines placed in tombs, each of which was assigned to work magically for the deceased in the afterlife. The installation includes related objects, among them stelae, reliefs, gold earrings, amulets, ritual statuettes, coffins, and mummy boards.
The Mummy Chamber is organized by Edward Bleiberg, Curator of Egyptian Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
The exhibition is made possible with generous support from the Leon Levy Foundation and the Museum’s Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund.
Media
Mummy Interactive
Go under the mummy wrappings and view videos of curators and conservators talking about the exhibition.
Talk
Visitor comments
I think that the mummy exhibit is awsome. It makes me feel like I am actually in a mummy chamber in a pyramid with real mummies! I was surprised to see a mummy inside the sarcophagus.
There should have been translations of the hyroglphs.
It was very informational, but i wanted to know did the egyptians mummify their pets?
everthing is beyond beautiful and educational.... its my first time here and i love it will come again to experience the whole museum
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