Sarcophagus Lid (VCU_3D_3194)

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This is the lid of a sarcophagus for a mummy named Nesiur currently on display at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery in Dayton, Ohio. The museum's 3-D scanner, Go!Scan 50, was used to scan the sarcophagus at its location in the museum. Jill E. Krieg-Accrocco, Curator of Anthropology and Exhibitions, reports that Nesiur was discovered by H.E. Winlock of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York during an excavation at Deir el-Bahari site in western Thebes in 1922. Located along the west bank of the Nile River, Deir el-Bahari features a collection of mortuary temples and tombs. Nesiur was found buried inside a chamber cut into the floor of a brick chapel. Her coffin and mummification style indicate that she lived during the 25th Dynasty, approximately 700 BC. Nesiur was donated to the museum in 1926 by an unknown donor.