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THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MUMMY

Since January 2004, at the National museum of Slovenia Preernova

In 1846, Sir Anton Lavrin, the Austrian general consul in Egypt, gave to what was then the Museum

of the Province of Carniola in Ljubljana an Egyptian mummy in a painted wooden anthropomorphic

coffin. Today this is the only Ancient Egyptian anthropomorphic coffin with a human mummy in

Slovenia. The hieroglyphs on the coffin were translated in 1866 by Albert Kosma, the first Slovenia

Orientalist. It was evident from them that the mummified Isahta had been a priest in the temple of

Amon at Karnak, and that he lived in the turbulent late period of the 25th or 26th dynasty (7th - 6th

cent. BC). The coffin and mummy were fully conserved and restored in 2000-2002, and many

investigations were also performed then.

The coffin and the mummy are presented to the public together with several other artifacts from

Ancient Egypt in the ground floor hallway of the museum, along with the results of the primarily non-

destructive examinations. A brief film presents information about the lengthy conservation,

restoration, and investigation of the coffin and mummy. An interesting educational program also

parallels the exhibit.

You can find more about the mummy here.

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