Mumia

Mumia (-ae, f),^[1] cadaver medicatum,^[2] vel corpus mortuum conditum,^[2] est corpus exanimatum arte aut natura a corruptione servatum.

Mumia Llullaillaco e Provincia Saltensi Argentinae.

Mumia Amosis I in Museo Luxoriensi ostenta.

Etymologia

Verbum mumia a nomine Arabico مومية mūmiyya 'bitumen', derivatur, interea mūmiyya a nomine Persico موم mūm 'cera'.^[3][4]

Nexus interni

• Autopsia
• Cadavera turbarii
• Oetzi
• Zingiber (cadaver medicatum)

Bibliographia

• Aufderheide, Arthur C. 2003. The Scientific Study of Mummies. Cantabrigiae: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521818265.
• Barber, Elizabeth Wayland. 1999. The Mummies of Ürümchi. Londinii: Pan Books. Etiam: Novi Eboraci: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0393045218.
• Budge, E. A. Wallis. 1925. The Mummy, A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology. Novi Eboraci: Dover Publishing. 1989. ISBN 0486259285.
• Davis-Kimball, Jeannine, cum Mona Behan. 2002. Warrior Women: An Archaeologist’s Search for History’s Hidden Heroines. Novi Eboraci: Warner Books. ISBN 0446679836.
• Ilkerson, Bill. 2006. Wrap-It-Up: How My Lost Child Will Survive Us All. Portlandiae: Eye of Raw Texts. ISBN 0439568277.
• Mallory, J. P., et Victor H. Mair. 2000. The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West. Londinii: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500051011.
• Pringle, Heather. 2001. Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead. Penguin Books. ISBN 0140286691.
• Taylor, John H. 2004. Mummy: the inside story. Londinii: The British Museum Press. ISBN 0714119628.

Nexus externi

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad mumias spectant.

Notae

1. Vide e.g. Athanasii Kircher Sphinx Mystagoga: sive Diatribe hieroglyphica, qua Mumiae, ex Memphiticis Pyramidum Adytis Erutae.. 1676 (in ipso titulo et passim).
2. Ebbe Vilborg. Norstedts svensk-latinska ordbok. Editio secunda ab anno 2009.
3. Raja Tazi, Arabismen im Deutschen (1998), pp. 268-269.
4. Online Etymology Dictionary (© 2001 Douglas Harper), lemma 'mummy'.