Facts about the Kittermaster mummy
Research Donata Pangoli into history and original post-mortem
- Originally belonged to a museum in Cardiff, enclosed in a coffin of a male 30-year-old royal carpenter.
- Coffin two parts from different coffins
- Mummy was in a poor state and donated for medical examination by Dr Arthur Kittermaster
- Mummy was photographed and x-rayed before the autopsy
- Fracture, pelvis, right leg, crushing blow on the knee
- Soft tissues of the head are preserved, except nasal cartilage.
- Lips, eyelids, and ears are all present
- Brain possibly removed via Tran nasal route
- Teeth in good condition
- Head detached from body cervical c4
- Absence of lungs and heart in the thorax, virtually no organs in the abdomen
- Clavicles overlapping sternum, free ends of ribs against vertebrae
- Arms and legs separate, technique, or not articulating with body
- Both nails and fingers are well preserved
- Bamboo rod 47 cm long placed behind tibia and fibula
- The body contained many dead insects, masses of preserved bacteria
- Embalming substances included vegetable gums
Further investigations at KNH Centre for the Forensic Egyptology University of Manchester.
- Research into history by Manchester
- The mummy and coffin belong to the Aberystwyth College Museum
- Coffin donated to the Egypt centre of Swansea
- Mummy eviscerated with the cheapest techniques
- Mummy donated to Aberystwyth in 1899 by Mr James Wilson Mr Thomas Davies, Jp Bootle
- The heart is the seat of the wisdom of the deceased it was essential to keep with the body to get an afterlife, if not possible, replaced with an amulet in the shape of a scarab.
- Documentation British Museum
- Evidence for the evisceration of the abdominal cavity, but inconclusive for the thoracic cavity
- Each fingernail is individually wrapped, and careful treatment of skin
- No comment on the quality of linen
- Dating late period to the Ptolemaic
- Some evidence to suggest rewrapping of the body after robbing
- Evidence of exacerbation (excerebration) via the foramen magnum
- Coffin dated to the Ptolemaic period and was originally made for a priest Udeb of Apu, modern Akhmim. East bank of Nile
Scientific methods Manchester
- School examined as part of another MSc project facial reconstruction
- Sex, confirmed as female
- Age assessment and pubic symphysis 19-35, 25-26 mid twenties
- Many dislocated vertebrae in cervical and lumbar regions
- Imaging of the skull absence of hair on the scalp, common in adults wearing wigs
- Dental study no caries no abscesses Attrition classes 1-11 and 111. overall wear is minor. , lack of plaque suggests regular oral hygiene.
- Evidence of wear on the teeth suggests linked to holding fibres
- Temporomandibular joint disease
X ray study
Stature and robusticity 152.9 cm =- 3.72 cm gracile build
Eyes left in place
No evidence of malnutrition but evidence of an acute disease during childhood
Dislocation of the atlas suggests possible cause of death Possible cause of death hyperextension or hyperinflextion of the head
Associated with a fall
