Basket And Base, Palm Leaf
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Jan 1959
name: label: Donor Name
content: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
label: Site Name
content: Deir El-Bahri (Deir el-Bahari)
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: ""From Thebes, Deir el Bahri, Tomb 65, Tomb (2 pts) of Merytamen. XVIII Dynasty Museum Excavations 1928-29. Lid not found with basket. Just under the ridge for the lid and knotted through the sides of the basket are the ends of 2-ply linen cords, probably representing 4 loops which met on top of the lid and were sealed, to hold the lid in place. Contents: 11 small and 3 large bundles of mummified meats; mass of rags etc., (floor sweepings) among which were the 2 human-shaped original bandages of Merytaman [Merytamen, Meritamun], folded up. Bibl.: H. E. Winloch [sic, should be Winlock], Meryet-Amun, 1932, p. 34, p. 46, p. 76, No. 44B, pl, XXXIX A." No contents in basket and base was detached from sides when received at U.S.N.M."
label: Notes
content: Palm leaf (2 leaf).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Egyptian, New Kingdom Period, Dynasty XVIII
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 223500
label: USNM Number
content: A422999-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket