Conyers Middleton
Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta … his appendicis item loco adjuncta est mumiae Cantabrigiensis descriptio
Londini: Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox, 1745
Mm.4.86, tab. XXII, plate

An image of the cartonnage coffin for the mummy published in an appendix to Middleton’s catalogue of his own collection of antiquities, where he recounts his examination of the mummy with his friend William Heberden. Imported from Constantinople, it was a remarkable curiosity—John Laughton donated part of a mummy to Trinity College around 1680 and the Royal Society had been given a mummy by the Duke of Norfolk, but such objects were still far from familiar. It was transferred to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1869 and later catalogued by E. A. Wallis Budge as Roman, ca AD 350. Only the cartonnage coffin survives in the Museum today.