X-rays of Ti Ameny Net

University of Richmond
Department of Classical Studies

X-rays of Ti Ameny Net
(also translated as Djai Ameni Niwet)

The mummy of Ti Ameny Net was x-rayed by UR Classics' Professor Stuart Wheeler in 1976 at the Naval Ballistics Laboratory in Indian Head, Maryland. This was made possible by University of Richmond alumnus, Mr. Edward Baroody.

J. Lawrence Angel, curator of physical anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution, examined these x-rays at the request of Professor Wheeler and interpreted them as follows:

Sex Criteria are all clearly female.
Age Criteria are transitional from young to middle aged, between 30 and 40.
Race criteria are white: she "looks" Egyptian.
Stature is between 152 and 155 centimeters -- just under 60 1/2 inches -- a bit shorter than the average for eastern Mediterranean peoples, including Egyptians.
There are no scars of child birth, and no visible scars of growth arrest at the ends of the long bones.
There is no indication of pathology.
There is a slight trace of arthritis.

The mummy itself was preserved by soaking in resins and gums and wrapped in fine white linen. Cultural objects wrapped in the linen wrapping include:

beside the left thorax at circa T9 level: a snaky handle with two bars.
on the thorax at T10 level - a flower like daub, possibly a cotton ball.
at the T10 and L3 levels - two bars circa 2 to 3 centimeters long.
below and medial to the left knee - a flower like daub.
at the lateral side of the right ankle, a scroll 47 millimeters long, with a central peg or roller 57 millimeters long, slightly tapering.

At the present time the university has no plans to unwrap the mummy and the identification of these cultural objects remains unknown. It was not unusual to wrap such totemistic objects in the linen folds to protect the body within.