This burial is from Dra ‘Abu el-Naga‘, at Qurna, near the Valley of the Kings, excavated by the British School of Archaeology in 1909 CE. The tomb contained two burials, this man and a woman named Peret-en-bastet (now in Manchester Museum).

Radiographs (X-rays) of the mummy show the body of a man aged about 30 years. He died about 945-900 BCE, early in the 22nd Dynasty. Most coffins at this time are brightly painted but some, like this one, were plain, painted black with yellow inscriptions. Black was one of the colours of resurrection, alongside green. The lotus flowers, placed on the mummy by mourners, have survived for over 2,000 years.