New Evidence on the Mummification Process in the Late Period. Hieratic Texts from the Embalmer's Cache in the Shaft Tomb of Menekhibnekau at Abusir

Abstract

Description, translation and analysis of late hieratic inscriptions on jars from the embalmer's cache of Menekhibnekau ta Abusir, containing names of substances used in the mummification process as well as identification of days of the mummification process on which they were supposed to be used.

Keywords

• New
• Evidence
• Mummification
• Process
• Late
• Period
• Hieratic
• Texts
• Embalmers
• Cache
• Shaft
• Tomb
• Menekhibnekau
• Abusir