Djedmaatesankh

Djedmaatesankh was an Egyptian woman from the city of Thebes (modern Luxor) who died in the middle of the 9th century B.C. She was an ordinary middle-class woman and musician. Her cartonnage coffin is thought to have been buried on the west bank of the Nile about 2,850 years ago. The coffin and mummy of the lady Djedmaatesankh are part of the permanent collection of the Royal Ontario Museum in the Galleries of Africa: Egypt. The coffin was collected and brought to the Royal Ontario Museum by Dr. Charles Trick Currelly, the museum's first director, in the early 20th century. Notably, the cartonnage of Djedmaatesankh is one of the best preserved of its period.

After death, her body was eviscerated through a diagonal incision in the left inguinal region. Five linen-wrapped packages which probably contain her mummified organs are present in the body cavity; her heart is not present in the chest and is likely in one of these packages. Her lower torso is stuffed with fabric. Her embalming incision is not stitched but it covered with a metal plate. Her wrappings contain several amulets on the front of the abdomen: they take the form of a scarab; a pectoral in the shape of a falcon, winged scarab, sun disc, or uraeus; and a djed-pillar.