bandage woven

This is a rare example of a real bandage woven with a selvage on each side. The majority of bandages used in mummification were strips torn from long sheets

Mummy bandage from Tutankhamun's embalming cache, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Tutankhamun, ca. 1336–1327 b.c.

Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes, embalming cache of Tutankhamun (Tomb KV 54), Valley of the Kings, Davis/Ayrton 1907

Linen; L. 64 15/16 in. (165 cm), W. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm)

Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1909 (09.184.797)

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