Horemkenesi - May He Live Forever! : The Bristol Mummy Project

by Dawson, David

• ISBN13: 9780900199455
• ISBN10: 0900199458
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: David Brown Book Co

Summary

In April 1981 a team of archaeologists and scientists started work on a rare event - the unwrapping of an Egyptian mummy. This was the main stage of a project that had started with the examination by X-ray of all the mummies in the collection of the Bristol Museums and Art Gallery, inspired by the late Dr. Joe Sluglett OBE.
The focus of the Project was the mummy of a man identified from inscriptions on his coffin as Horemkenesi. Because the bandages were crumbling away, he was unwrapped in order to gain as much knowledge as possible.
It was a case of 'investigate or incinerate'.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. 9
List of Plates	p. 13
List of Tables	p. 13
Illustration Acknowledgements	p. 14
List of contributors	p. 14
Foreword	p. 15
Acknowledgements	p. 16
Introduction	p. 17
The mummy and its coffin
The institution and the mummy collection	p. 19
The rediscovery of Horemkenesi	p. 31
The construction of the coffin of Horemkenesi	p. 35
The decoration of the coffin and other inscriptions	p. 38
Radiocarbon measurement of wood from the coffin	p. 54
Taking off the wraps
The process of unwrapping	p. 55
How the mummy of Horemkenesi was prepared	p. 63
The textiles	p. 123
The palaeopathology
Horemkenesi - a pathologist's view	p. 139
Endoscopy	p. 145
Horemkenesi's blood group	p. 146
Horemkenesi and the ecology of disease in ancient Egypt	p. 148
Skeletal palaeopathology	p. 150
The dental examination of Horemkenesi, 21 January 1982	p. 154
Some observations on the dentition of Horemkenesi	p. 156
Trace elements in the teeth of Horemkenesi	p. 159
The phenomenon of the open mouth of Horemkenesi	p. 162
The anthropology
Horemkenesi: a comparative craniometric study and multivariate statistical analysis	p. 167
From tomb to laboratory - the environmental evidence
Extensive damage by Dermestid beetles	p. 175
Report on the mycological examination of the bandages	p. 177
Chemical composition and origin of the embalming 'resins' employed in the mummification of Horemkenesi	p. 179
The plant remains	p. 180
Archaeobotanical analysis of material from the body cavity of Horemkenesi	p. 181
'The Osiris Horemkenesi, justified'
Reconstruction of the head	p. 185
Synthesis	p. 190
Cranial measurements, mandibular measurements and non-metric variants observed on Horemkenesi's cranium	p. 201
Catalogue of crania included in the Canonical Variate Analysis	p. 202
Additional statistical data on the six-variable, 23-group CVA (see figure 18.5)	p. 204
Additional statistical data on the six-variable, 26-group CVA (see figure 18.6)	p. 204
Additional statistical data on the nine-variable, 19-group CVA (see figure 18.7)	p. 205
Additional statistical data on the nine-variable, 22-group CVA (see figure 18.8)	p. 205
Bibliography	p. 206
Index	p. 214
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