The
Royal Museum of Scotland has a small but interesting collection of Egyptian
mummies and other artifacts on the first floor. These are late period mummies,
such as the one below left, which dates to the Roman period with its painted
mummy-face portrait.
But the most interesting mummy in
the display is one of a young girl (which also dates to the Roman period). The
mummy case may look large in the above photo, but it is actually quite small. And,
though the figure carved onto the front of the coffin is that of a woman, the
coffin held the body of a young girl. This was not unusual.
The display is notable for the grave
goods recovered with the body and included in the exhibit: tiny glass bottles
for perfume and oil, two silver mirrors, a guardian lion figure, and a mummy
label (with the figure of a man painted on one side and the figure of a woman
painted on the reverse), among others. You can visit the Museum
website here.
