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Meresamun's Coffin at the Ashmolean Museum

 

 

Meresamun was a musician of Amun (a similarly named mummy resides at the Oriental Institute in Chicago). An opening along the back of the cartonnage permitted her mummified remains to be inserted; the opening was then laced up.  

 

 

A closer look at Meresamun's cartonnage face

 

 

 

 

 

 

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