mummified left hand (adult) (human remains)

A mummified adult left hand, broken below the wrist and the thumb is missing. Some linen bandages survive around the fingers. There is a label stuck around the hand which reads "Mummy hand (Lady's) from Old Memphis- Egypt probably 2 or 3,000 years old."
Digits 2-5 present including distal, middle and proximal phalanges, metacarpals 2-5 and some carpal bones.

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