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Takabuti was an ancient Egyptian married woman who reached an age of between twenty and thirty years. She lived in the Egyptian city of Thebes at the end of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt, c. 660 BC. [1] Her mummified body and mummy case are in the Ulster Museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland. [2]
The mummy and coffin of Takabuti have been housed in the Ulster Museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland since at least 1835, when she was unwrapped. She died in her late 20s, likely from a stab wound. [35] Ta-Kr-Hb: Priestess 760-525 BC 25-26th Female Before 1896 — Tash pen Khonsu Priestess c.185 BC Ptolemaic Female
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, four mummies – the priestess Hortesnakht of Akhmim, [33] the lady Rer of Saqqara, [33] an unidentified man from the 4th or 3rd century BCE (known as "the mummy from Szombathely" after the location of the previous collection he was part of) [34] and a man from the 2nd century BCE (known as "the unwrapped mummy" as he was already unwrapped when the museum ...
The Egyptian mummified body of Takabuti. Mummy case of Tjesmutperet. Slender-billed curlew; Rothschild's, Queen Alexandra's and other birdwing butterflies. Giant clam – given to the Belfast Natural History Society by Francis Walker; Lammergeier mount by James Sheals; Gervais' beaked whale (Mesoplodon europaeus) Japanese spider crab
In 2020 the mummy of Takabuti was tested for mitochondrial DNA. Takabuti was a noblewoman from Thebes in Upper Egypt who lived during the 25th Dynasty, c. 660 BC. Analysis of her DNA revealed that she belonged to the mtDNA haplogroup H4a1. [35]
The following is a list of mummies that include Egyptian pharaohs and their named mummified family members. [a] Some of these mummies have been found to be remarkably intact, while others have been damaged from tomb robbers and environmental conditions (with some only having small fragments representing the mummy as a result).
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Although the focus of the collections was primarily on zoology, botany and geology substantial archaeological, ethnographic and antiquarian acquisitions were made and in 1835 the Society gained an Egyptian mummy, Takabuti. Specimen of an emperor penguin donated to the Belfast Natural History Society by Francis Crozier