Scientific Collections of the Trans-Danubian Calvinist Church - Museum (Pápa)
Egyptian coffin and mummy
The mummy and its coffin has been seen in our museum for nearly 120 years
The mummy and its coffin has been exhibited in our museum for nearly 120 years. The mummy was brought to the relic store of the seminary in 1884 as a donation from former student Károly Markstein. The merchant purchased the finding in the Relic Museum of Egypt for 1500 franks. In the tombs of the Ptolemaios-age (305-30 B.C.) 8-10 thousand mummies and coffins were brought about, among them the mummy and coffin of Hori. The town was inhabited during the period of the new Egyptian empire (1552-1070 B.C.) and was connected to the royal family.
According to the drawings and inscriptions found on the coffin Hori was a priest working during the 20th dinasty (1186-1070), serving the godess Isis. However, thorough restoring and examination works in 1984-86 proved that the man laying in the coffin is a middle aged person who lived about 500 years later. In other words, the coffin was resued a second time. At this time it was often the case that coffins were resued for the burrial of lower classes people.
The richly ornamented coffin is a good example of the pictural relics of the Osiris-cult so generally widespread in ancient Egypt.
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