Outer coffin of Seshepenmehyt
c.600 BC
Late Period
The inscriptions tell us little of Seshepenmehyt beyond the fact that she was ‘lady of the house’ and that she played the sistrum to accompany rituals in the temple of Amun-Ra at Thebes. X-rays of the mummy show that beneath the wrappings, is the body of an adult, who died between 25 and 40 years of age.
(Source: The British Museum)