Object Title
Mummification Bandage of Userwer
Measurements
H: 2 9/16 × W: 11 1/4 in. (6.5 × 28.5 cm)
Creation Date
ca. 399-343 BCE
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. Hans Goedicke, 2009
Museum Contact
provenance@thewalters.org
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Object URL
https://art.thewalters.org/detail/79099
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
The Walters Art Museum is in the process of determining definitions of antiquity
Provenance Information
[Found in the cemetery of Giza by an expedition of Egyptian archaeologists in the 1950s]; Professor Dr. Abd el Monem Abubakr, Cairo, Giza University, 1950s, by discovery; Professor Dr. Hans Goedicke, Baltimore, 1957, by official gift [for his assistance in the deciphering of some texts from the excavation at Giza]; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.
Exhibition Information
Egypt's Mysterious Book of the Faiyum, The Walters Art Museum, 6 October 2013-5 January 2014
Publication Information
Jose M. Galan, Ir a buscar Iena; Estudios dedicados al Prof. Jesus Lopez (2001), pp. 102-106
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Informed judgement that works were outside of the country of modern discovery before 1970
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
The donor attested that this work was exported prior to 1970. Research to verify this is ongoing.