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Carter No.: 317b(2)

Handlist description: Mummy of a child ritualistically wrapped

Card/Transcription No.: 317b-07


(317. B. (2) continued) 2

shrunken eyeball with no packing.

On opening the head through the anterior fontanelle the cranial cavity was found filled with linen apparently impregnated with some saline material. The linen had been inserted through the nose. A wire passed through the right nostril appeared in the cranial cavity as seen through the fontanelle.

Umbilicus. There is no sign of the umbilical cord but the appearance of the navel which is not retracted suggests that the cord had been removed by cutting it off close to the abdominal wall and that it had not dried up as it would had the child lived.

The abdominal wall has been opened by an incision 18 mm. in length on the left side immediately above the inguinal ligament and parallel with it. The opening was closed with a

Card no. 317b-07 relating to Carter no. 317b(2)
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