Seal Impression Attatched to a Fiber Tie from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache
- New Kingdom
- Dynasty 18
- reign of Tutankhamun
- ca. 1336–1327 B.C.
- From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Valley of the Kings, Embalming Cache of Tutankhamun (KV 54), Davis/Ayrton excavations, 1907–08
- Mud, fiber
- Seal and tie: L. 4.2 cm (1 5/8 in.)
Seal: L. 2.5 cm (1 in.); W. 1.8 cm (11/16 in.)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1909
- Accession Number:
This mud sealing is still attached to a piece of the papyrus tie that was used to secure a container. The impression preserves the throne name of Tutankhamun, Nebkheperure, and the epithets "beloved of Khnum" and "manifold of praises."
For a similar impression, see 09.184.263.
Excavated by Theodore M. Davis in the Valley of the Kings (KV 54), 1907. Received by Davis in the division of finds. Given by Davis to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1909.
Hayes, William C. 1959. Scepter of Egypt II: A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom (1675-1080 B.C.). Cambridge, Mass.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 302.
Winlock, Herbert E. 2010. "Materials Used at the Embalming of King Tutankhamun." In Tutankhamun's Funeral, edited by Herbert E. Winlock and Dorothea Arnold. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, pp. 28–29, figs. 19a–b.