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Gilded Mummy Covering
Gilded Mummy Covering

Gilded Mummy Covering

Artist Unknown
Datecirca 300 BCE
MediumLinen with gesso, paint, and gilding
Dimensions60 x 14 3/8 x 12 1/4 in. (152.4 x 36.5 x 31.1 cm)
ClassificationsTextiles
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number75.1.1/a-k
On View
On view
ProvenanceCordier & Ekstrom, Inc., New York, NY; sold to NCMA, 1975. Published References"Recent Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 13, nos. 1 and 2 (1975), cat. no. 97, illus. (b-w) 33.

Mary Ellen Soles, entry for Mummy Covering, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 11, 20-21, illus. (color) 20.

Caroline M. Rocheleau, entry for Gilded Mummy Covering, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 40, illus. (color) 41.

Caroline M. Rocheleau, Ancient Egyptian Art [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2012), cat. no. 28, illus. (color) 79, detail (color) 80, details (color) and translations 145–146.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Cordier and Ekstrom, "Him," January 4-February 10, 1973, cat. no. 1, illus.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Recent Acquisitions," November 23, 1975-February 22, 1976.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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