This cartonnage (a mummy-envelope made of linen, gum, and plaster) was the innermost coffin in the nesting set of a man named Nes-pa-per-en-nub (Nespaperennub). We can tell that Nespaperennub lived in Thebes during the 22nd dynasty by the style of his coffin and his titles which are painted on it. Nespaperennub’s coffins (and Nespaperennub himself) were purchased by Adolf Sutro in Egypt in the early 1880s and were displayed at the Sutro Baths for over half a century. Happily, they were transferred to San Francisco State University before the Baths burnt to the ground in 1966.
For more on Nespaperennub, see our webpage, here: https://3dcoffins.berkeley.edu/coffins/sfsu-global-museum-1071
The model and the images used to build it are courtesy of The San Francisco State University Museum Studies Program and the Global Museum, where Nespaperennub and his coffins remain today.
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