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Coffin and Mummy of Nesmin (Around 250 BC)


Image by The Analog Kid (Dan)
The display reads:

Egyptian, Ptolemaic Period
Found at Thebes

Coffin and mummy of Nesmin, around 250 BC
Coffin: wood, gesso, gilding, colored glass
Mummy: linen, cartonnage (plaster-stiffened layers of linen or papyrus)

Museum Appropriations and Mary B. Jackson Funds 38.206

The coffin and mummy belong to an Egyptian priest, Nesmin (pronounced Esmin), who lived during the Ptolemaic Period, an era of Greek domination in Egypt following its conquest by Alexander the Great in 332 BC. The hieroglyphic texts on the lower portion of Nesmin’s coffin lid provide his titles and genealogy. Like his father and many paternal ancestors, he had been a priest of Min, a god of fertility, and also of Khonsu, a god of the moon and healing. His mother played the sistrum (ritual rattle) in the service of Min. As a priest, Nesmin’s duties included clothing the statue of Min and caring for other god’s statues and for their temple home. Nesmin pursued his priestly duties in Middle Egypt at Akhim. The decoration of his coffin reflects a Ptolemaic style typical for that site.

Taken November 16th, 2010.

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Coffin and Mummy of Nesmin (Around 250 BC)


Image by The Analog Kid (Dan)
The display reads:

Egyptian, Ptolemaic Period
Found at Thebes

Coffin and mummy of Nesmin, around 250 BC
Coffin: wood, gesso, gilding, colored glass
Mummy: linen, cartonnage (plaster-stiffened layers of linen or papyrus)

Museum Appropriations and Mary B. Jackson Funds 38.206

The coffin and mummy belong to an Egyptian priest, Nesmin (pronounced Esmin), who lived during the Ptolemaic Period, an era of Greek domination in Egypt following its conquest by Alexander the Great in 332 BC. The hieroglyphic texts on the lower portion of Nesmin’s coffin lid provide his titles and genealogy. Like his father and many paternal ancestors, he had been a priest of Min, a god of fertility, and also of Khonsu, a god of the moon and healing. His mother played the sistrum (ritual rattle) in the service of Min. As a priest, Nesmin’s duties included clothing the statue of Min and caring for other god’s statues and for their temple home. Nesmin pursued his priestly duties in Middle Egypt at Akhim. The decoration of his coffin reflects a Ptolemaic style typical for that site.

Taken November 16th, 2010.

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44:366 – February 17: Then and Now XVII – Prepared for the Zombie Apocolypse


Image by Dread Pirate Jeff
Then: 1991, I was a Junior, starting out in Photography, writing, and had been in theatre for 6 years at this point. I was also becoming slightly more introverted (odd thing to happen to an actor) and deeply in love with Alison Bolt. I also met a couple of my future ex-girlfriends that year, and a few friends I’ve had ever since. From then on, I began a downward slide into my present self, stopping along the way to be a Dead Head, EMT, Forklift driver, truck loader, cook, manager, waiter, gun dealer, drug dealer, photographer, computer geek and a host of other things that I would eventually become.

Now: I am a gun-toting Zombie Hunter, and yes, I AM preparing for the Zombie Apocolypse, or major SHTF event. Louis Pasteur said "Chance favors the Prepared Mind" and I try to be as prepared as I can be for most exigencies. Also, as the great Desmond Llewellyn’s Q said to James Bond, "never let them see you bleed; and always have an escape plan"

For the curious, that is a Chinese SKS with a fibreglass sniper stock, long barrel, suppressor, bipod and one of the 30 round magazines. And yes, I AM, in fact, wearing a Zombie Hunter shirt

This is the end of my Then and Now shots. I ran out of pictures. My parents still have some stored away, so maybe I’ll do one or two more in the future, if they find them… but if not, that’s the way it is.

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