Cincinnati: The
Taft Art Museum/Museum of Natural History has
two Egyptian mummies from the Ptolemaic/Roman period.
Cleveland: The
Cleveland Museum of Natural History displays the
body of Balto the Sled Dog, who garnered fame in the 1920s for
delivering diphtheria serum in Alaska. The museum also houses the Hamann-Todd Osteology collection which includes the skeletons of
900 apes and monkeys as well as the skeletons of some 3100 local citizens collected early in the Twentieth Century by
two
Cleveland medical professors (the human skeletons were unclaimed
bodies from the local morgue); the collection is only available to researchers.
But the collection also includes at least one Egyptian Mummy that was
reduced to bones, except for its head; although not displayed, you can see
Senbi the Scribe here.
Columbus: The
Ohio Historical Society's Museum (Ohio
Village portion) has an Egyptian mummy and coffin from the late
dynastic period. [Doug Lowry notes: "the Columbus mummy and the
Dayton mummy (see below) were from the same donor in the 1920's. The
Columbus museum chose its mummy on the basis of the elaborate coffin.
Dayton got the plainer coffin and the remainder of the artifacts.
These include many votive statuettes, a cat mummy and coffin,
alabaster unguent jars and jewelry." Unfortunately, a recent
visit by TerishD revealed that the coffin lid is now closed, and the mummy
unavailable for viewing. Thank you, Doug Lowry and TerishD.
Dayton: The
Boonshoft Museum of Discovery has a small display on ancient Egypt, which
includes a female mummy with coffin from the late dynastic period.
According to Doug Lowry, "Several years ago, CT-scans of the
mummy's head were made and on the basis of these a sculptural
reconstruction of her appearance in life was done."
Toledo: The
Toledo Museum of Art has at least one mummy. Long thought
to be the mummy of a woman who lived during the 26th Dynasty, the
mummy was recently discovered to belong to a man (perhaps a priest)
who died during the Third Intermediate Period (approximately 800
B.C.).
