mummie; Hor ; wade ; kruisbanden ; kralennet De collectie van Giovanni d'Anastasy die in 1828 door het museum is aangekocht, bevatte een groot aantal houten mummiekisten en sarcofagen waarvan enkele zelfs nog de oorspronkelijke gemummificeerde eigenaar bevatten. Dit exemplaar werd geleverd in twee houten mummiekisten die in elkaar passen. De buitenste lijkwade is oranje van kleur en verwijst naar de ondergaande zon. De wade wordt op zijn plaats gehouden door zes horizontale en twee diagonale banden. De mummie is bedekt met een kralennet dat de hemel moet voorstellen. In het net zijn een halskraag, een gevleugelde scarabee en de vier beschermende Horuszonen verwerkt. Röntgenonderzoek heeft aangetoond dat Hor nog jong was toen hij stierf. Het skelet is nog intact, de tanden zijn allemaal aanwezig en er is geen spoor te vinden van ziekte of verminking. (FM) Mummy of an adult. The bandages are fully covered by a plain shroud of faded red linen, damaged at the feet and along the sides (modern stitching). The linen is a medium-fine warp-faced tabby weave (about 12 x 21 threads/cm2). The rectangular shroud is folded around the front of the body but leaves a tapering gap at the rear. The edges are finished with a rolled and whipped hem and stitched onto the underlying bandages (this may be modern). These bandages are of plain linen, applied horizontally with varying protruding width (4-10 cm wide). The shroud is held in position by a number of linen straps of 2-4 cm wide, consisting of medium-fine linen (11 x 30 threads/cm2) which have been folded double lengthwise: six transverse bands passing around the forehead (a double strap), shoulders, abdomen, thighs, knees, and ankles; plus a stola crossed over the chest and passing over the shoulders. These straps show knots at the centre of the back. On top of the shroud lies a bead net of mainly dark blue faience beads, extending from the shoulders to just above the ankles. This is rectangular in shape (long 111 cm, wide 32.5 cm). It is constructed of cylinder beads (average length 1.5 cm) forming lozenge-shaped cells, with barrel beads at the crossings (alternating ranges of bright greenish blue and red). The upper border has a concave neck-line set off with a collar of four ranges of cylinders (alternating ranges of blue and red). The sides and lower edge consist of a simple string. The lateral edges are further accentuated by the use of highly glossy beads, unlike the dull beads of the rest of the net, with 3-6 white ring beads at the crossings. The monotony of blue lozenges is further broken by ranges of cream and yellow beads (cream: lateral strips in the 7th, 11th, and 30th row, central strips in rows 8-9; yellow: full-width in rows 15 and 22, central position in rows 24-25). The following elements have been fixed on top of the bead net: on the chest a blue frit scarab with incised details and extended wings of mosaic work (horizontal ranges of white, yellow, red, and blue disc beads, with blue and red only along the wing tips); over the thighs silhouette figures of the four Sons of Horus, all facing right and manufactured in white faience with black eyes and purple cross straps. The facial details of these figurines are incised in a rather crude style.