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Object radiograph "Coffin with mummy and canopy“
Ev. Krankenhaus Alsterdorf2001
MARKK
Hamburg, Germany
It was assumed for a long time that this small wooden coffin contained a child mummy. However, an x-ray examination in 2001 revealed that it was not a mummy laying in the coffin but rather two adult thighbones wrapped in old linen.
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Details
- Title: Object radiograph "Coffin with mummy and canopy“
- Creator: Ev. Krankenhaus Alsterdorf
- Date Created: 2001
- Type: Radiograph
- Publisher: Museum of Ethnology Hamburg
- Rights: Museum of Ethnology Hamburg | Photographic Archive Collection
- External Link: Homepage Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg
- Medium: radiographic film
- Date of Acquisition: 2001
- Context of Origin: Hamburg, Germany
- Collection: Photographic Archive
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