Hedvig Győry: Mélanges offerts a Edith Varga „Le lotus qui sort de terre” (Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts Supplément 1. Budapest, 2001)
JUAN JOSÉ CASTILLOS: Eso-Eris, the Wandering Mummy
mummy with a portable unit but their findings were not published for more than a decade. In the early XX century a letter including photographs was sent to A. Erman in Germany asking for an evaluation of the funerary items and the texts written on the coffin. Erman replied providing somewhat inaccurate infonnation (for instance, he assumed without evidence that the man mentioned in the coffin was Eso-Eris' father and wrote about a woman Muthotep who does not appear anywhere in the texts), but his report included the first acknowledgement that the inscriptions on the coffin contained fragments of the Pyramid Texts instead of the much more common chapters from the Book of the Dead, something that J. Capart also noticed and recorded in his personal diary when he visited Montevideo and the museum in 1936. The first study and translation of the texts on this coffin was published in 1980 7 . A few years earlier I had sent a first draft to R. Faulkner in Suffolk, England, who very kindly supported most of my work on these texts with a few minor corrections. There is a main text on the lid of the coffin with four shorter ones symmetrically placed above it, all in vertical columns, and finally there is a horizontal one on the sides of the wooden pedestal of the coffin going all around it, in the same cursive hieroglyphs. I am giving below what I could read from this badly damaged main inscription which suffered for many years from unprotected exhibition causing large portions of the inscribed plastered surface to fall off leaving large gaps in the text: dd mdw in Wsir ist-Wrt si n iw (?) N(y)-s(w)-pi-mii ms nb(t)-pr 'I(nk)-n-Mnw.... Words recited by the Osiris Isis-the-great: "(I make) protection for the deceased (?) Nysw-Pa-Mai (or Mahes), son ot the lady Ink-n-Mnw" ... J. J. Castillos, Una momia cgipcia conscrvada en el Museo Arqueológico Palacio Taranco de Montevideo, Montevideo 1980.
