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XXXIX.—Nores on a Mummy rn THE PossEssion oF Lorp James 
Bourter. By A. Macarister, M.D., F.R.S., Fellow of St. John’s 
College, and Professor of Anatomy in the University of Cambridge. 
[Read, January 22, 1883. ] 
Txrovex the. kindness of Lord James Butler I have had the opportu- 
nity of assisting at the examination of a female Mummy, which has 
been for some time in his Lordship’s collection. It was brought from 
Egypt by Lord Walter Butler about the year 1848, having been pre- 
sented to his Lordship by Mr. Salt ; but as to its original source I have 
no information. 
The body was contained in a single wooden coffin, of the kind which 
is so common from the twenty-first dynasty onward. The bandages were 
of plain linen, which here and there showed traces as though it had been 
inscribed, but all the surface had long since been destroyed by damage 
and exposure, and the body itself was quite fragmentary. It was that 
of a small middle-aged female, of small stature (under five feet), with 
a well-formed head and (apparently) straight features, and very small 
hands and feet. 
The coffin lid is much broken, but all its pieces are preserved. 
The upper part of the lid is carved in the form of a female face, with 
a namms head-dress, and a pectoral collar of the usual diced pattern, 
with, medially, a winged disk, along the margin of which on each side 
is a line of inscription— 
‘“¢Ta an Nut mes neteru.”’ 
‘“Says Nut, daughter of the gods.”’ 
Below is an oblique chequered band, under which are the eyes of 
Horus, which fill up the corners on each side of the semicircular col- 
lar. Below the eyes on each side is a ram with a double feather 
between his horns, and standing on a standard, the emblem of Horus; 
and between these, on each side, are ten short vertical lines of in- 
scription, separated in the middle by a winged disk, and the nud or 
emblem of gold. These lines read thus, on the right :— 
Give royal supplies, Osiris. 
Unnefer, Great God, Lord of Heayen*** 
Great God, may he give bread. 
Beer, thousands of wax. 
Thousands of all things good, pure. 
Thousands of wax. 
Thousands of offerings all pure. 
Thousands of offerings all good. 
Thousands of all things delicious. 
Palm-fruits, thousands of, 
To the spirit of * * * 
R.I. A. PROC., VOL. II., SER. II.—POL. LIT. AND ANTI. 2G 
