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Human Remains; Mummy of Padiamun

Human Remains; Mummy of Padiamun

Mummified remains of a male adult named Padiamun, an official of the barque of Amun at Karnak who lived in the late 8th century BC. His name means 'he whom Amun gave' and he held the titles 'sailor of the barque of Amun' and 'chief of navigation of the barque of Amun'. Inscriptions on his coffins reveal his father was Thatienwensu and his mother was Taditanebhen. His brother was Nehemsumontu who was also a 'chief of navigation of the barque of Amun' and his coffins are now in museums at Boulogne-sur-Mer and Grenoble.

In September 1851 Padiamun’s mummy was unwrapped at Edgeworth Manor by a surgeon named H W Rumsey, Esq. The wrappings were roughly replaced after the examination in 1851 and then rewrapped in 1976. There are several bags of excess bandages. The mummy was X-rayed in 1967 and CT scanned in 2012 . PHK Gray who led the radiograph study of Liverpool's mummies in 1967 noted that the treatment of Padiamun's body is not normally found after the beginning of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty and suggested embalmment during the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Dynasties. A sample of resin was taken from the top of the cranium in 1999 for analysis which revealed the contents to be: 61% fat/oil, 0.2% coniferous resin, 1.5% balsam

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http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml/collections/antiquities/ancient-egypt/item-303546.aspx

The tomb of Ankhtifi at Mo'alla

The tomb of Ankhtifi at Mo'alla

a cooking scene is distinguished by its originality and its relatively good conservation

• The middle register shows two men busy around a brazier of burning coals. The character on the left, sitting on a small wooden cubic seat, holds a long stick at the end of which is staked a plate of ribs, held over the live coals. Opposite, his assistant is fanning the fire to revive the live coals and to maintain the heat. Between the two characters is a curious object which seems to finish in a duck head or a spatula (see cm-219). The use that could be made of this instrument remains undetermined.

The tomb of Ankhtifi at Mo'alla

The tomb belongs to the provincial governor (nomarch - being the leader of a nome) and military leader Ankhtifi who exercised the power in the south of the Upper Egypt under the IXth Herakleopolitain Dynasty (around 2100 B.C.).

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