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    Who's That Lying in My Coffin? An Imposter Exposed by 14C Dating

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    Sowada, Karin
    Jacobsen, Geraldine E.
    Bertuch, Fiona
    Palmer, Tim
    Jenkinson, Andrew
    Issue Date
    2011-01-01
    
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    Sowada, K., Jacobsen, G. E., Bertuch, F., Palmer, T., & Jenkinson, A. (2011). Who's that lying in my coffin? An imposter exposed by 14C dating. Radiocarbon, 53(2), 221-228.
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    Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona
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    Radiocarbon
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10150/654385
    DOI
    10.1017/S0033822200056502
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    http://radiocarbon.webhost.uits.arizona.edu/
    Abstract
    In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many museums acquired Egyptian coffins containing mummies from private donors who bought them from dealers in Egypt. Owing to the unknown context of such acquisitions, it cannot be assumed that the mummified individual inside the coffin is the same person named on it. Radiocarbon dating is a key diagnostic test, within the framework of a multidisciplinary study, to help resolve this question. The dating of an adult mummy in the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney was therefore checked using 14C dating. For over 150 yr, mummy NM R28.2 was identified as Padiashaikhet as per his coffin, dated to the 25th Dynasty, about 725-700 BC. 14C results from samples of linen wrappings revealed that the mummy was an unknown individual from the Roman period, cal AD 68-129. The mummification technique can now be understood within its correct historical context.
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    ISSN
    0033-8222
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1017/S0033822200056502
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