BLAYDS, John & OSBURN, William. 
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An Account of an Egyptian Mummy, Presented to the Museum of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, by the late John Blayds. Drawn up at the Request of the Council: By William Osburn, Junior. With an appendix containing the chemical and anatomical details of the examination of the body, by Messrs E. S. George, T. P. Teale and R. Hey. Leeds, printed for the Society, by Robinson & Hernaman, 1828. Large 8vo. iv,+ 51,+ (2) pp.+ 5 lith. plates, of which two are folding. Foxing, the plates with a small stain in upper corner. Sewn and uncut, with the original printed wrapper, loose in spine. Owner’s signature of N. Rasmussen on front wrapper.
The mummy of Nesyamun, an ancient Egyptian priest at the Karnak temple during the Twentieth Dynasty (around 1100 BC), was discovered in the early 1820s by Giuseppe Passalacqua. It was brought to Europe and after being sold several times it was finally bought by the banker John Blayds in 1824 for the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society’s museum. The coffin was opened in late 1824 and the mummy was multidisciplinary investigated by a numbers of the society’s members under the directions of William Osburn. Their results was published in the present account, which become ”...one of the earliest scientific examinations to be undertaken on an Egyptian mummy” (Brears, The Mummy's Tale: The Scientific and Medical Investigation of Natsef-Amun, Priest in the Temple at Karnak, New York 1993, p. 59). The mummy is regarded as a very well preserved body. In the 1890s it was examined again, now by Flinders Petrie, and again in 1989, in 2002 and continuing. Since 2008 it is in the Leeds City Museum.
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Sachgebiete: Ägyptologie, Antike, Geschichte
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