Shroud and Flower Garlands on Upper Part of Tutankhamun’s Second Coffin

What looks like the pharaoh’s mummy is in fact a mummy-shaped coffin covered with a thin shroud. Tutankhamun's body had been placed inside three nesting coffins, each of which was draped with at least one linen sheet as well as floral garlands or a floral collar. Harry Burton made this image after Tutankhamun’s outer coffin had been opened and before work proceeded to remove the shroud and open the other coffins. (For the lower section of the second coffin, see TAA 369.)

The garlands visible here were made from a combination of flowers and foliage, including cornflowers, lotus petals, and olive leaves. A small circular wreath had been carefully positioned over the shrouded uraeus and vulture images, the pharaoh’s insignia, at the coffin’s forehead.