Floral Garlands of Nany ca. 1050 Third Intermediate Period Nany bore the titles Mistress of the House, Chantress of Amun-Re, and King’s Daughter of his body. She was most likely the child of the High Priest of Amun, Painedjem I (ca. 1050 ), who was de facto ruler of the Theban area in the early 21st Dynasty. Like many of the members of her family, she was buried at Deir el-Bahri, in an earlier tomb used by a consort of the New Kingdom pharaoh Amenhotep II (died ca. 1400 ), Meritamun. In her seventies at the time of her death, she was short and fat, but retained some of her teeth a

Floral Garlands of Nany ca. 1050 Third Intermediate Period Nany bore the titles Mistress of the House, Chantress of Amun-Re, and King’s Daughter of his body. She was most likely the child of the High Priest of Amun, Painedjem I (ca. 1050 ), who was de facto ruler of the Theban area in the early 21st Dynasty. Like many of the members of her family, she was buried at Deir el-Bahri, in an earlier tomb used by a consort of the New Kingdom pharaoh Amenhotep II (died ca. 1400 ), Meritamun. In her seventies at the time of her death, she was short and fat, but retained some of her teeth and most of her hair. Most of her tomb furniture had originally been made for her mother, a Mistress of the House and Chantress of Amen-Re named floral collar, made of persea leaves and lotus petals sewn with a double running stich over thin strips of palm leaf, was found over the left breast of her wrapped Floral Garlands of Nany. ca. 1050 Persea leaves, lotus petals, palm leaves, linen thread. Third Intermediate Period. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb of Meritamun (TT 358, MMA 65), Mummy of Meritamun, MMA excavations, 1928–29. Dynasty 21

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