Museum Monday: Djed-maat-es-ankh’s Mummy

By |July 10th, 2017|Categories: Museums, Travel|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

This is not a sarcophagus, it is actually called a cartonnage, meaning the mummy is covered with layers of plaster and then painted. (Therefore she is sealed inside and cannot be removed or opened.) This cartonnage mummy is a woman by the name of Djed-maat-es-ankh and she now resides at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada. She was likely an ordinary middle-class woman or even a musician had lived in Luxor in the 9th century BC (22nd Dynasty during the 3rd Intermediate Period) and died of a dental issue. She is one of the best-preserved examples from her timeperiod, although it is rumored