AN ANCIENT MUMMY.
Mr Pass more ILdwards, M.P., has presented to the Salisbury Museum an Egyptian coffin and mummy. Dr Birch says of it :—" The mummy's name on the coffin is of a married lady or person named Unen, daughter of Har, a priest of Amen. The mummy its enveloped in the usual pink colored 6hroud, and is covered with a net work of blue bugles, emblematic of the recovery of the body of Osiris by nets in the Nile, It if about b.o. 700,"
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Temuka Leader, Issue 382, 3 May 1881, Page 2
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85AN ANCIENT MUMMY. Temuka Leader, Issue 382, 3 May 1881, Page 2
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