Mummy of the "Embroideress Euphemia"

In 1901, the young conservator-Egyptologist Jean Capart acquired for the museum the content of two tombs from Antinoë (Middle Egypt), which were excavated in 1899-1900 by the French archaeologist Albert Gayet. It is the tomb equipment of ‘the Embroideress Euphemia’ and that of the goldsmith Kolluthos and his wife Tisoia. The ‘natural mummy’ of Euphemia has been preserved almost intact. She was ide…