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"Speak my name so that I may live again" was often written on the walls of Egyptian tombs, imploring visitors to speak the names of the dead and make offerings on their behalf. These acts of continued remembrance sustained the dead in the afterlife.
Speak My Name: Investigating Egyptian Mummies explores the coffins and mummies of Meruah, Padiashaikhet, Horus and Mer-Neith-it-es, who lived in Egypt between 1200 BCE and 100 CE and whose mummies and/or coffins are now in the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney.
A multidisciplinary team provides new insights into mummification and coffin manufacture in ancient Egypt through a combination of scientific and Egyptological methods, including CT imaging, skeletal analysis, radiocarbon dating, and digital modelling and illustration. Their discoveries illuminate the personhood of the individuals these mummies and coffins represent. Advances in technology allow us to respectfully learn about their daily lives, including nutrition, health and disease.
Beautifully illustrated, Speak My Name demonstrates how science and archaeology work together to help us better understand the past. By studying the life and death of Meruah, Padiashaikhet, Horus and Mer-Neith-it-es, we speak their names again.
Contents
List of illustrations
Director's foreword
Foreword
1 The Mummy Project at the Chau Chak Wing Museum
2 From Egypt to Australia: the Nicholson Collection at the University of Sydney
3 Wrapping the dead: mummification in ancient Egypt
4 Unwrapping the dead: changing attitudes to mummified remains
5 Radiocarbon dating the Nicholson mummies
6 The coffin of Meruah: Mistress of the House, Chantress of Amun
7 The mummy in the coffin of Meruah
8 The coffin of Padiashaikhet: Beloved of the God
9 The mummy inside the coffin of Padiashaikhet
10 The coffin of Mer-Neith-it-es: Justified
11 The mummy inside the coffin of Mer-Neith-it-es
12 Horus: a perfect burial
13 Creating The Mummy Room at the Chau Chak Wing Museum
