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Mummy's Boy

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by Jonathan Migliori

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RISD Museum, 2014
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A vividly decorated coffin with hieroglyphs, symbolic imagery and a gilded face framed by a painted black wig.

Unknown Maker, Egyptian

Coffin and mummy of Nesmin, Ptolemaic

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