1786.b.33, 1(21)

Genre: Archaeological Photography

Photograph of three mummy cases and four small sculptured objects: 'The three Mummies represented in the photograph were brought from Thebes for a very wealthy and enterprizing gentleman, Mr. Barnet, the proprietor of the Museum at Niagara. The one with the beard of Osiris, proved to be a female, another was a very indifferent Mummy; neither of them were the original occupants of their cases; the middle one, in the plate, however, proved to be a first class specimen ... At the feet of the Mummy cases represented in the photograph, are four vases, the lids of which are sculptured in the likenesses of the four Genii of Amenti, as seen in the plate of the Judgment Scene. These vases are of coarse marble, and contained the heart, the lungs, the stomach, and the intestines of the Mummmy at whose feet they were placed in the tomb...' This image, from a glass rather than a paper negative, may well have been photographed in America rather than Egypt.