Mummy on the move

NewsOK.com

Just in passing, and in the light of conversations re the Manchester Museum mummy discussions, I though that the issue of moving this mummy from one museum to another showing the appropriate respect for her as a deceased person was quite interesting.

Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art officials were making final plans Monday to use a hearse to move a 2,300-year-old mummy to the Museum of the Red River in Idabel.

Kelly Carter, funeral director for the Conley-White Funeral Home in Idabel.

"We'll treat her with the same level of high respect as any other deceased person we move — that's our business,” she said.

The mummy is being loaned for free to the Idabel museum and will remain there until July, said Dalaynna Trim, curator of the Mabee-Gerrer.

She is one of two female mummies collected during the world travels of the Rev. Gregory Gerrer, who after his ordination into the priesthood in 1900, was sent to Rome to study art. He later returned to Oklahoma, bringing his collection with him.

By 1942, he had collected more than 1,600 pieces of art, Trim said.

Trim said the Egyptian mummy is from the Ptolemaic Dynasty (400-300 B.C.). She said the hieroglyphics on her sarcophagus have not been translated so her name is unknown.

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