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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cylindrical bag of sawdust from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Unrecorded artist

ca. 1336–1327 B.C.

Attribution
Unrecorded artist
Medium
Linen, decomposed wood material (sawdust)
Physical dimensions
folded into two parallel rolls: L. 39.7 cm (3 7/16 in.); W. 8.7 cm (3 7/16 in.); H. 3.7 cm (1 7/16 in.) as one long tube: ca. L. 75 cm (29 1/2 in.); W. 4.5 cm (1 3/4 in.); H. 3.7 cm (1 7/16 in.)
Credit line
Gift of Joseph Veach Noble, 1988
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