Liverpool Museum unveils Mummy of Nesmin as part of it's newest items exhibited online.
This mummy once kept in the home of the Victorian author Sir Rider Haggard, author of King Soloman’s Mines. He enjoyed collecting ancient objects and even wore gold rings from the fingers of mummies.
Foreign travels and objects such as mummies inspired his adventure tales. This mummy came from the cemetery at Akhmim that was severely plundered during the 1880s. We know that his name is Nesmin and that he lived in the ancient town of Khent-Mim at about 300 BC. We have discovered that his son is called Ankh-Hapy and have located his mummy in the Roemer und Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim, Germany.
The mummy of Nesmin has been covered with a black resin. Placed upon the mummy is a cartonnage apron brightly painted with jewelry and events from the Book of the Dead. Gold was considered to be the flesh of the gods and the gold face suggests that Nesmin has reached the Afterlife.
The coffin of Nesmin has very simple decoration on the outside and nothing on the inside. This is typical of coffins at the end of the Dynasty 30. -- www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
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