{
 "schema": "mysteries-case/0.1",
 "case": {
  "id": "liber-linteus",
  "title": "The Zagreb Mummy",
  "thesis": "An Etruscan book cut into bandages, an Egyptian woman, and a papyrus that may not be hers. Every claim carries a tag for how well its sources support it.",
  "holder": "Archaeological Museum in Zagreb",
  "compiled": "2026-11-14",
  "scope": "Published sources only. Nothing here was checked against archives first-hand. A tag records how strongly the cited sources support a claim; it is never a verdict of our own dressed up as fact.",
  "year_note": "Years are signed: negative numbers are BC. No year-zero correction is applied; the evidence resolves decades, not single years.",
  "revision": "Rev. 2, 2026-11-14",
  "rev": 2
 },
 "statuses": [
  {
   "id": "established",
   "label": "Established",
   "rule": "Measured, or documented in a primary or peer-reviewed source, with no source against it."
  },
  {
   "id": "inference",
   "label": "Supported inference",
   "rule": "Not stated outright. Follows from established evidence by reasoning someone has written down, with its assumptions named."
  },
  {
   "id": "claimed",
   "label": "Claimed",
   "rule": "A source says so, but it is unverified: popular or secondary only, an anecdote, or never checked against the record."
  },
  {
   "id": "contested",
   "label": "Contested",
   "rule": "Sources disagree. Every version is kept until the evidence settles it."
  },
  {
   "id": "unknown",
   "label": "Unknown",
   "rule": "No supported evidence. A gap, stated as a gap and never filled with a guess."
  },
  {
   "id": "rejected",
   "label": "Rejected",
   "rule": "Was asserted, and evidence now rules it out. Kept in the record, struck through, with the reason."
  }
 ],
 "trails": [
  {
   "id": "A",
   "label": "Ownership",
   "question": "Who held it, where, and when?"
  },
  {
   "id": "B",
   "label": "Recognition",
   "question": "Who understood what, and when?"
  },
  {
   "id": "C",
   "label": "Ancient",
   "question": "How did these things come to be together?"
  }
 ],
 "objects": [
  {
   "id": "book",
   "label": "Book",
   "name": "Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis",
   "detail": "Etruscan ritual calendar on linen, more than 1,200 words, cut into bandage strips."
  },
  {
   "id": "bandages",
   "label": "Bandages",
   "name": "Plain wrappings",
   "detail": "Uninscribed linen from the same mummy. Radiocarbon shows at least two different ages."
  },
  {
   "id": "body",
   "label": "Body",
   "name": "The mummy",
   "detail": "A woman aged 30–40, 164 cm tall, with her embalming unguent."
  },
  {
   "id": "wreath",
   "label": "Wreath",
   "name": "Wreath and grave goods",
   "detail": "Sewn leaves, the skull of a young cat, flowers, a necklace."
  },
  {
   "id": "papyrus",
   "label": "Papyrus",
   "name": "Papyrus Zagreb 602",
   "detail": "Book of the Dead in hieratic, in many fragments, given to the museum with the mummy."
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  {
   "id": "uranic2006",
   "short": "Uranić 2006",
   "year": 2006,
   "grade": "scholarly",
   "read": "full",
   "cite": "Uranić, I. 2006. Contributions to the Provenance of the Zagreb Mummy. Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 46: 197–202. doi:10.1556/AAnt.46.2006.1-2.20",
   "url": "https://real.mtak.hu/45814/",
   "note": "By the museum's own Egyptology curator. Peer-reviewed. Cites no archival document for the purchase."
  },
  {
   "id": "housley1989",
   "short": "Housley et al. 1989",
   "year": 1989,
   "grade": "scholarly",
   "read": "full",
   "cite": "Housley, R. A., Srdoč, D. & Horvatinčić, N. 1989. AMS and Radiometric Dating of an Etruscan Linen Book and Associated Mummy. Radiocarbon 31(3): 970–975. doi:10.1017/S0033822200012601",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033822200012601",
   "note": "Fifteen radiocarbon dates from three laboratories. Table 1 read from the scanned page."
  },
  {
   "id": "srdoc1986",
   "short": "Srdoč & Horvatinčić 1986",
   "year": 1986,
   "grade": "scholarly",
   "read": "cited",
   "cite": "Srdoč, D. & Horvatinčić, N. 1986. Radiocarbon Dating of the Liber linteus Zagrabiensis. Vjesnik Arheološkog muzeja u Zagrebu, 3rd ser., 19: 83–98.",
   "note": "Known through Housley et al. 1989 and Uranić 2006."
  },
  {
   "id": "mirnik1986",
   "short": "Mirnik & Rendić-Miočević 1986",
   "year": 1986,
   "grade": "scholarly",
   "read": "full",
   "cite": "Mirnik, I. & Rendić-Miočević, A. 1986. Liber linteus Zagrabiensis. Vjesnik Arheološkog muzeja u Zagrebu, 3rd ser., 19: 41–72.",
   "note": "Narrative pp. 41–49 and documents I–XXIV read from the page scans; about 20 claims spot-checked against the OCR. A published transcription, not the manuscripts. The plate images are not yet viewed.",
   "url": "https://hrcak.srce.hr/en/26862"
  },
  {
   "id": "plavsic1986",
   "short": "Plavšić 1986",
   "year": 1986,
   "grade": "scholarly",
   "read": "cited",
   "cite": "Plavšić, B. 1986. X-Ray Analysis of the Zagreb Mummy. Vjesnik Arheološkog muzeja u Zagrebu, 3rd ser., 19: 99–103."
  },
  {
   "id": "tvrtkovic1986",
   "short": "Tvrtković 1986",
   "year": 1986,
   "grade": "scholarly",
   "read": "cited",
   "cite": "Tvrtković, N. 1986. On the Skull of a Cat Found Among the Fragments of the Wreath of the Mummy of Zagreb. Vjesnik Arheološkog muzeja u Zagrebu, 3rd ser., 19: 105–106."
  },
  {
   "id": "sabljar1862",
   "short": "Sabljar's receipt and label",
   "year": 1863,
   "grade": "primary",
   "read": "full",
   "cite": "Sabljar, M. Receipt note, Zagreb, 10 Mar 1863 (printed in Mirnik & Rendić-Miočević 1987: 32), and the calligraphic vitrine label crediting Ilija Barić.",
   "note": "Scan-checked in the 1987 printed edition. The manuscript is unchecked."
  },
  {
   "id": "ilija-letter",
   "short": "Ilija Barić's papers",
   "year": 1861,
   "grade": "primary",
   "read": "full",
   "cite": "Barić, Ilija (Elias Barich). Erklärung, Golubinci, 14 Dec 1861, and letter to Ban Josip Šokčević, Golubinci, 19 Mar 1862. Printed in Mirnik & Rendić-Miočević 1986, documents I–II.",
   "note": "Read in the 1986 printed transcription. Šokčević was Ban from 1860 to 1867."
  },
  {
   "id": "krall1892",
   "short": "Krall 1892",
   "year": 1892,
   "grade": "primary",
   "read": "part",
   "cite": "Krall, J. 1892. Die etruskischen Mumienbinden des Agramer National-Museums. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, phil.-hist. Kl. 41.",
   "note": "Introduction (pp. 1–10) read in OCR; the rest not yet.",
   "url": "https://tpsalomonreinach.mom.fr/files/original/91c9add56ea3ccc5fa17d4b6e9ff99e139074cbe.pdf"
  },
  {
   "id": "burton1879",
   "short": "Burton 1879",
   "year": 1879,
   "grade": "primary",
   "read": "part",
   "cite": "Burton, R. F. 1879. The Ogham-Runes and el-Mushajjar. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom 12.",
   "note": "The Zagreb excerpt is read; the full article is not."
  },
  {
   "id": "roncalli1980",
   "short": "Roncalli 1980",
   "year": 1980,
   "grade": "scholarly",
   "read": "cited",
   "cite": "Roncalli, F. 1980. Osservazioni sui libri lintei etruschi. Atti della Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia, Rendiconti 51–52: 3–21. Also: Carbasinis voluminibus implicati libri, Jahrbuch des DAI 95: 227–264."
  },
  {
   "id": "vandermeer2007",
   "short": "van der Meer 2007",
   "year": 2007,
   "grade": "scholarly",
   "read": "cited",
   "cite": "van der Meer, L. B. 2007. Liber linteus zagrabiensis. The Linen Book of Zagreb: A Comment on the Longest Etruscan Text.",
   "note": "Known here only through Wikipedia's summary."
  },
  {
   "id": "belfiore2010",
   "short": "Belfiore 2010",
   "year": 2010,
   "grade": "scholarly",
   "read": "cited",
   "cite": "Belfiore, V. 2010. Il liber linteus di Zagabria: testualità e contenuto."
  },
  {
   "id": "bmcr2014",
   "short": "BMCR 2014",
   "year": 2014,
   "grade": "scholarly",
   "read": "summary",
   "cite": "Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.11.16, review of Woudhuizen's translation of the Liber Linteus.",
   "url": "https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/?p=30724"
  },
  {
   "id": "amz2019",
   "short": "Liber i mumija 2019",
   "year": 2019,
   "grade": "scholarly",
   "read": "summary",
   "cite": "Archaeological Museum in Zagreb. 2019. Liber i mumija.",
   "note": "Known only through a search summary saying it dates the papyrus at least a century after the mummy. Not read."
  },
  {
   "id": "impact",
   "short": "IMPACT database",
   "year": null,
   "grade": "secondary",
   "read": "full",
   "cite": "IMPACT Radiological Mummy Database, entry IMP00092 (Nesi-Hensu). University of Western Ontario, undated.",
   "url": "https://impactdb.uwo.ca/context/imp000921.pdf",
   "note": "Student-compiled from Uranić 2006 and an unpublished overview by Reznicek. Gives the donation as August 1862 and, in its header, an unexplained acquisition date of 1885."
  },
  {
   "id": "wikipedia",
   "short": "Wikipedia",
   "year": null,
   "grade": "popular",
   "read": "summary",
   "cite": "Wikipedia, 'Liber Linteus'.",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liber_Linteus"
  },
  {
   "id": "natgeo",
   "short": "National Geographic",
   "year": null,
   "grade": "popular",
   "read": "summary",
   "cite": "National Geographic History, 'What was the mystery message written on the mummy's wrappings?'",
   "url": "https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/what-was-the-mystery-message-written-on-the-mummys-wrappings"
  },
  {
   "id": "ancientorigins",
   "short": "Ancient Origins",
   "year": null,
   "grade": "popular",
   "read": "summary",
   "cite": "Ancient Origins, 'The Liber Linteus: An Egyptian Mummy Wrapped in a Cryptic Message'.",
   "url": "https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/liber-linteus-002690"
  },
  {
   "id": "vintagenews",
   "short": "The Vintage News",
   "year": 2018,
   "grade": "popular",
   "read": "summary",
   "cite": "The Vintage News, 'The Egyptian Mummy Wrapped in a Manuscript from Ancient Italy', 2018.",
   "url": "https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/09/24/mummy-in-a-foreign-book/"
  },
  {
   "id": "case-notes",
   "short": "Case notes",
   "year": 2026,
   "grade": "working",
   "read": "full",
   "cite": "This case's own working notes, 2026-11-11.",
   "note": "Our own earlier reasoning, kept so its corrections stay visible."
  },
  {
   "id": "mirnik1987",
   "short": "Mirnik & Rendić-Miočević 1987",
   "year": 1987,
   "grade": "scholarly",
   "read": "part",
   "cite": "Mirnik, I. & Rendić-Miočević, A. 1987. Liber linteus Zagrabiensis II. Vjesnik Arheološkog muzeja u Zagrebu, 3rd ser., 20: 31–48.",
   "url": "https://hrcak.srce.hr/en/file/42915",
   "note": "Documents XXV–XXVIII and the receipt note read."
  },
  {
   "id": "solter2016",
   "short": "Šolter 2016",
   "year": 2016,
   "grade": "scholarly",
   "read": "part",
   "cite": "Šolter, A. 2016. Arheološki muzej u Zagrebu: život od 19. do 21. stoljeća. Zagreb: Arheološki muzej u Zagrebu.",
   "note": "Two passages scan-checked (printed pp. 36–37): the gift register AAMZ 23 and the 1892 caption. The other 340-odd pages are unread."
  },
  {
   "id": "wz1829",
   "short": "Wiener Zeitung 1829",
   "year": 1829,
   "grade": "primary",
   "read": "full",
   "cite": "Wiener Zeitung, 30 July 1829, p. 1: appointment of 'Michael v. Barich' as Hofkonzipist.",
   "url": "https://anno.onb.ac.at"
  },
  {
   "id": "wz1859",
   "short": "Wiener Zeitung 1859",
   "year": 1859,
   "grade": "primary",
   "read": "full",
   "cite": "Wiener Zeitung, 18 December 1859, p. 12, death list for 14 December.",
   "url": "https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=wrz&datum=18591218&seite=12",
   "note": "Scan-checked. Identifying this Barich with the mummy's owner follows Krall 1892."
  },
  {
   "id": "press1892",
   "short": "Vienna and Graz press, Jan 1892",
   "year": 1892,
   "grade": "secondary",
   "read": "full",
   "cite": "Deutsches Volksblatt (Vienna), 13 Jan 1892; Grazer Tagblatt, 18 Jan 1892.",
   "note": "Near-identical wording: dependent texts, not two witnesses."
  },
  {
   "id": "nfp1905",
   "short": "Neue Freie Presse 1905",
   "year": 1905,
   "grade": "secondary",
   "read": "full",
   "cite": "Müller, D. H. Obituary of Jakob Krall. Neue Freie Presse, 16 July 1905, pp. 34–36.",
   "note": "Quotes the museum catalogue's 'unknown Egyptian (!) script'."
  },
  {
   "id": "bojnicic",
   "short": "Bojničić, Kroatische Revue",
   "year": 1880,
   "grade": "primary",
   "read": "cited",
   "cite": "Bojničić, I. v. Catalogue entry on the Egyptian collection. Kroatische Revue, 1880 or 1882.",
   "note": "Known through Krall 1892 and Müller 1905. The year differs between them and the 1986 bibliography."
  },
  {
   "id": "krsnjavi",
   "short": "Kršnjavi, Zapisci",
   "year": 1986,
   "grade": "primary",
   "read": "cited",
   "cite": "Kršnjavi, I. Zapisci I. Zagreb 1986, p. 34.",
   "note": "Cited in the 1986 volume for the emperor's briefing."
  }
 ],
 "radiocarbon": [
  {
   "lab": "OxA-1680",
   "object": "book",
   "material": "Liber linteus (inscribed linen)",
   "bp": 2110,
   "err": 60,
   "cal": [
    -360,
    5
   ],
   "cal_label": "360 BC – AD 5"
  },
  {
   "lab": "OxA-1386",
   "object": "body",
   "material": "Human tissue",
   "bp": 2160,
   "err": 80,
   "cal": [
    -395,
    -40
   ],
   "cal_label": "395–40 BC",
   "note": "Body had been soaked in kerosene in the 19th century; washed before dating."
  },
  {
   "lab": "Z-1653",
   "object": "bandages",
   "material": "Linen wrappings",
   "bp": 2290,
   "err": 40,
   "cal": [
    -405,
    -210
   ],
   "cal_label": "405–210 BC",
   "note": "The 1986 Zagreb date later used, wrongly, to date the book."
  },
  {
   "lab": "GrN-13875",
   "object": "bandages",
   "material": "Linen wrappings",
   "bp": 2210,
   "err": 13,
   "cal": [
    -365,
    -205
   ],
   "cal_label": "365–205 BC"
  },
  {
   "lab": "GrN-14442",
   "object": "bandages",
   "material": "Linen wrappings",
   "bp": 2335,
   "err": 15,
   "cal": [
    -405,
    -395
   ],
   "cal_label": "405–395 BC"
  },
  {
   "lab": "OxA-1387",
   "object": "bandages",
   "material": "Linen wrappings",
   "bp": 2760,
   "err": 90,
   "cal": [
    -1015,
    -800
   ],
   "cal_label": "1015–800 BC (with OxA-1388)",
   "note": "Oxford cellulose pretreatment."
  },
  {
   "lab": "OxA-1388",
   "object": "bandages",
   "material": "Linen wrappings (same piece)",
   "bp": 2700,
   "err": 90,
   "cal": [
    -1015,
    -800
   ],
   "cal_label": "1015–800 BC (with OxA-1387)",
   "note": "Zagreb pretreatment."
  },
  {
   "lab": "Z-1654",
   "object": "wreath",
   "material": "Leaves",
   "bp": 2580,
   "err": 60,
   "cal": [
    -900,
    -520
   ],
   "cal_label": "900–520 BC",
   "note": "Measured on a less reliable sample after the clean leaves were lost in a laboratory accident."
  },
  {
   "lab": "GrN-14467",
   "object": "wreath",
   "material": "Leaves",
   "bp": 2825,
   "err": 15,
   "cal": [
    -1015,
    -925
   ],
   "cal_label": "1015–925 BC"
  },
  {
   "lab": "OxA-1389",
   "object": "wreath",
   "material": "Leaves",
   "bp": 2920,
   "err": 100,
   "cal": [
    -1400,
    -905
   ],
   "cal_label": "1400–905 BC"
  },
  {
   "lab": "GrN-13860",
   "object": "body",
   "material": "Embalming unguent",
   "bp": 2240,
   "err": 13,
   "cal": [
    -385,
    -255
   ],
   "cal_label": "385–255 BC"
  },
  {
   "lab": "Z-1682",
   "object": "body",
   "material": "Unguent, fraction insoluble in chloroform",
   "bp": 2230,
   "err": 50,
   "cal": [
    -395,
    -190
   ],
   "cal_label": "395–190 BC"
  },
  {
   "lab": "OxA-1390",
   "object": "body",
   "material": "Unguent, fraction insoluble in chloroform",
   "bp": 2160,
   "err": 100,
   "cal": [
    -400,
    40
   ],
   "cal_label": "400 BC – AD 40"
  },
  {
   "lab": "OxA-1391",
   "object": "body",
   "material": "Unguent, fraction soluble in chloroform",
   "bp": 3010,
   "err": 80,
   "cal": [
    -1430,
    -1020
   ],
   "cal_label": "1430–1020 BC",
   "note": "Old carbon: probably bitumen or fossil resin."
  },
  {
   "lab": "Z-1675",
   "object": "body",
   "material": "Unguent, melted and exuded fraction",
   "bp": 4540,
   "err": 120,
   "cal": [
    -3610,
    -2920
   ],
   "cal_label": "3610–2920 BC",
   "note": "Old carbon: probably bitumen or fossil resin."
  }
 ],
 "radiocarbon_note": "Laboratories: Z = Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb; GrN = Centre for Isotope Research, Groningen; OxA = Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Oxford. Ranges are 2σ (95.4%) as calibrated in 1989 and have not been recalibrated against current curves.",
 "entries": [
  {
   "id": "book-c14",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "360 BC – AD 5",
    "start": -360,
    "end": 5
   },
   "title": "The inscribed linen dates to 360 BC – AD 5",
   "detail": "A single AMS sample from the book itself (OxA-1680, 2110 ± 60 BP). The authors stress that only this date, never the dates on plain bandages, can date the book.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "housley1989"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1989,
    "by": "Housley et al."
   },
   "c14": [
    "OxA-1680"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "book-written",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "c. 360–210 BC",
    "start": -360,
    "end": -210
   },
   "title": "Written in Etruria, most likely in the 3rd century BC",
   "detail": "Housley and colleagues combine the book's own date with the date of mummification: the book cannot be older than its radiocarbon range, and must exist before the body was wrapped. The argument holds only if the book wrapped this body from the start.",
   "status": "inference",
   "sources": [
    "housley1989"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1989,
    "by": "Housley et al."
   },
   "strip": {
    "start": -360,
    "end": -210,
    "kind": "estimate"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "book-content",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "at writing",
    "start": -360,
    "end": -210
   },
   "title": "A ritual calendar of more than 1,200 words, the longest Etruscan text known",
   "detail": "The only surviving example of an Etruscan linen book.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "housley1989",
    "uranic2006"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1892,
    "by": "Krall"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "book-paint",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "at writing",
    "start": -360,
    "end": -210
   },
   "title": "Written in black and red: ivory black and cinnabar",
   "detail": "Chemical analysis before dating found red and black paint containing mercury sulphide and charred ivory, so samples were cut from unpainted areas.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "housley1989",
    "srdoc1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1986,
    "by": "Srdoč & Horvatinčić"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "book-trasimeno",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "at writing",
    "start": -360,
    "end": -210
   },
   "title": "Made near Lake Trasimeno, in south-eastern Tuscany",
   "detail": "Argued from the local gods the calendar names.",
   "status": "claimed",
   "sources": [
    "vandermeer2007",
    "wikipedia"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 2007,
    "by": "van der Meer"
   },
   "note": "Known here only through Wikipedia's summary of van der Meer."
  },
  {
   "id": "book-stylistic",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1st c. BC or 1st c. AD",
    "start": -100,
    "end": 100
   },
   "title": "Written in the 1st century BC or the 1st century AD",
   "detail": "Two of the three dates proposed from the letter forms. Most researchers had also put the cutting into bandages in this window.",
   "status": "rejected",
   "sources": [
    "roncalli1980",
    "housley1989"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1980,
    "by": "Roncalli"
   },
   "rejected_by": {
    "text": "The book wraps a body mummified about 385–210 BC, so it cannot be later than about 210 BC. This rests on Housley's two stated assumptions about the body sample.",
    "sources": [
     "housley1989"
    ]
   },
   "strip": {
    "start": -100,
    "end": 100,
    "kind": "estimate"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "old-cloth",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "c. 390 BC → 3rd c. BC",
    "start": -390,
    "end": -210
   },
   "title": "The linen was about a century old when the book was written",
   "detail": "Inferred in this case's own notes on 2026-11-11, by reading 2290 BP as the date of the book's cloth and setting it against the 2110 BP date of the inked sample.",
   "status": "rejected",
   "sources": [
    "case-notes"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 2026,
    "by": "case notes"
   },
   "rejected_by": {
    "text": "2290 BP is a date on plain bandages, not on the book (Table 1). The book has one date of its own, and it fits a 3rd-century inscription.",
    "sources": [
     "housley1989"
    ]
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "wrong-390",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "body"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "c. 390 BC ± 45",
    "start": -435,
    "end": -345
   },
   "title": "Book and body both date to about 390 BC ± 45",
   "detail": "The 1986 Zagreb conclusion, drawn from one date on plain bandages (2290 ± 45 BP). Still repeated by Uranić in 2006 and by the IMPACT database.",
   "status": "rejected",
   "sources": [
    "srdoc1986",
    "uranic2006",
    "impact"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1986,
    "by": "Srdoč & Horvatinčić"
   },
   "rejected_by": {
    "text": "The bandages are of at least two ages and carry no writing. In the authors' words, it is important not to use the high-precision dates on the wrappings to date the book.",
    "sources": [
     "housley1989"
    ]
   },
   "strip": {
    "start": -435,
    "end": -345,
    "kind": "estimate"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "book-crossing",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "between writing and wrapping",
    "start": -360,
    "end": -210
   },
   "title": "How the book reached Egypt",
   "detail": "No evidence at all. Proposals include an Etruscan family living in Egypt, worn linen sold on as rags, or a traveller's possession.",
   "status": "unknown",
   "gap": "G3",
   "sources": [],
   "recorded": null
  },
  {
   "id": "book-cut",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "body"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "at mummification",
    "start": -385,
    "end": -210
   },
   "title": "Cut into bandage strips to wrap a body in Egypt",
   "detail": "Embalmers in this period often reused old cloth; this reuse is why the book survives at all.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "housley1989",
    "uranic2006"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1892,
    "by": "Krall"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "book-this-body",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "body"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "at mummification",
    "start": -385,
    "end": -210
   },
   "title": "That body was this woman",
   "detail": "Every source assumes it, but nobody recorded the unwrapping: when Barić died in 1859 she was already unwrapped and the bandages displayed apart. Her wrappings are of mixed ages, so some cloth was added later. The book's date is compatible with hers, which does not prove it.",
   "status": "claimed",
   "gap": "G4",
   "sources": [
    "uranic2006",
    "housley1989"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1862,
    "by": "museum tradition"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "bandages-young",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "bandages"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "c. 405–205 BC",
    "start": -405,
    "end": -205
   },
   "title": "Plain bandages, first group: about 405–205 BC",
   "detail": "Three radiometric dates on uninscribed bandages, close to the body's age. The two high-precision dates disagree slightly, so even this group is not one cloth.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "housley1989",
    "srdoc1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1986,
    "by": "Srdoč & Horvatinčić"
   },
   "c14": [
    "Z-1653",
    "GrN-13875",
    "GrN-14442"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "bandages-old",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "bandages"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "c. 1015–800 BC",
    "start": -1015,
    "end": -800
   },
   "title": "Plain bandages, second group: about 1015–800 BC",
   "detail": "Two AMS dates on one piece of uninscribed linen, some six centuries older than the body.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "housley1989"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1989,
    "by": "Housley et al."
   },
   "c14": [
    "OxA-1387",
    "OxA-1388"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "body-person",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "body"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "at death",
    "start": -385,
    "end": -210
   },
   "title": "A woman aged 30–40, 164 cm tall, mummified the Egyptian way",
   "detail": "Established by X-ray in 1986. Teeth and nails are intact. The 1998 restorer judged the embalming typical of late dynastic Egypt.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "plavsic1986",
    "uranic2006"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1986,
    "by": "Plavšić"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "body-c14",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "body"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "395–40 BC",
    "start": -395,
    "end": -40
   },
   "title": "Her tissue dates to 395–40 BC",
   "detail": "OxA-1386, 2160 ± 80 BP. The authors write that the body had been soaked in kerosene in the 19th century, and cleaned the sample first. This is probably the petroleum bath the museum gave her around 1900.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "housley1989"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1989,
    "by": "Housley et al."
   },
   "c14": [
    "OxA-1386"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "body-mummified",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "body"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "c. 385–210 BC",
    "start": -385,
    "end": -210
   },
   "title": "Mummified about 385–210 BC, at the end of the Late Period or early in Ptolemaic rule",
   "detail": "The pooled mean of the tissue and the plant part of the unguent is 2218 ± 12 BP. This assumes the kerosene was fully removed and the plants were fresh when used.",
   "status": "inference",
   "sources": [
    "housley1989"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1989,
    "by": "Housley et al."
   },
   "strip": {
    "start": -385,
    "end": -210,
    "kind": "estimate"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "body-unguent",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "body"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "at mummification",
    "start": -385,
    "end": -210
   },
   "title": "Her embalming unguent contains fossil carbon",
   "detail": "The unguent's plant part dates with the body, but a small soluble fraction gives 1430–1020 BC and a melted fraction 3610–2920 BC. The authors suggest bitumen or fossil resin, possibly from Sinai.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "housley1989"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1989,
    "by": "Housley et al."
   },
   "c14": [
    "GrN-13860",
    "Z-1682",
    "OxA-1390",
    "OxA-1391",
    "Z-1675"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "body-identity",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "body"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "at death",
    "start": -385,
    "end": -210
   },
   "title": "Who she was",
   "detail": "Two explanations circulate. Neither has direct evidence.",
   "status": "unknown",
   "sources": [
    "housley1989",
    "uranic2006",
    "wikipedia"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1892,
    "by": "since Krall"
   },
   "versions": [
    {
     "text": "An Egyptian woman. The book was old linen reused by the embalmers, which was customary in this period.",
     "sources": [
      "housley1989",
      "wikipedia"
     ]
    },
    {
     "text": "A woman of Etruscan descent living in Egypt, buried the Egyptian way with an Etruscan sacred book. Offered by the museum's curator as one possible explanation.",
     "sources": [
      "uranic2006"
     ]
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "wreath-leaves",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "wreath"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "c. 1400–520 BC",
    "start": -1400,
    "end": -520
   },
   "title": "The wreath's leaves are centuries older than the body",
   "detail": "Zagreb first blamed counting statistics; Groningen and Oxford confirmed the older age independently.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "housley1989"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1986,
    "by": "Srdoč & Horvatinčić"
   },
   "c14": [
    "Z-1654",
    "GrN-14467",
    "OxA-1389"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "wreath-cat",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "wreath"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "at burial",
    "start": -385,
    "end": -210
   },
   "title": "A wreath of sewn leaves holding the skull of a young cat, with flowers and a necklace",
   "detail": "Some leaves look stained, probably with an organic dye; X-ray fluorescence found no lead, mercury or iron paint.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "tvrtkovic1986",
    "uranic2006",
    "housley1989"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1986,
    "by": "Tvrtković"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "wreath-crocodile",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "wreath"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "at burial",
    "start": -385,
    "end": -210
   },
   "title": "Bird bones and a mummified crocodile among the wreath",
   "detail": "Reported by IMPACT from an unpublished overview. Not mentioned by Uranić.",
   "status": "claimed",
   "sources": [
    "impact"
   ],
   "recorded": null
  },
  {
   "id": "papyrus-reading",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "end of Late Period / early Ptolemaic",
    "start": -380,
    "end": -280
   },
   "title": "Papyrus Zagreb 602 names Perekh-Khons, servant of Khnum, and his wife Nesi-Khons",
   "detail": "A Book of the Dead in hieratic. The vignette shows a man and a woman praising Osiris and Imenty. His titles include god's servant in the temple of Karnak; she is mistress of the house. The text dates to the end of the Late Period or the start of Ptolemaic rule.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "uranic2006"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 2006,
    "by": "Uranić"
   },
   "strip": {
    "start": -380,
    "end": -280,
    "kind": "estimate"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "papyrus-tailor",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "end of Late Period / early Ptolemaic",
    "start": -380,
    "end": -280
   },
   "title": "Her husband was a 'divine tailor' of Thebes",
   "detail": "The popular version names them Nesi-hensu and Paher-hensu, which are spellings of the same names. Only the title differs: the curator's published reading of the vignette has him as servant of Khnum, with no tailor.",
   "status": "contested",
   "sources": [
    "impact",
    "wikipedia",
    "uranic2006"
   ],
   "recorded": null,
   "versions": [
    {
     "text": "Nesi-hensu, wife of Paher-hensu, a Theban 'divine tailor'.",
     "sources": [
      "impact",
      "wikipedia"
     ]
    },
    {
     "text": "Nesi-Khons, mistress of the house, wife of Perekh-Khons, servant of Khnum and god's servant in Karnak.",
     "sources": [
      "uranic2006"
     ]
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "papyrus-is-her",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "papyrus",
    "body"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "at burial",
    "start": -385,
    "end": -210
   },
   "title": "The mummy is Nesi-Khons",
   "detail": "First asserted by her owner's brother in 1862, to prove she was genuine. The curator calls the link only an assumption, 'because it cannot be proved', and nothing else in the remains points to her.",
   "status": "contested",
   "gap": "G4",
   "sources": [
    "ilija-letter",
    "uranic2006",
    "amz2019"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1862,
    "by": "Ilija Barić"
   },
   "versions": [
    {
     "text": "The papyrus's date generally fits the radiocarbon date of the mummy.",
     "sources": [
      "uranic2006"
     ]
    },
    {
     "text": "The papyrus is at least a century younger than the mummy, on linguistic grounds.",
     "sources": [
      "amz2019"
     ]
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "papyrus-thebes",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "papyrus",
    "body"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "at burial",
    "start": -385,
    "end": -210
   },
   "title": "Buried in Upper Egypt, probably near Thebes",
   "detail": "Follows from the husband's Karnak title, and holds only if the papyrus belongs to this mummy.",
   "status": "inference",
   "sources": [
    "uranic2006"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 2006,
    "by": "Uranić"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "findspot",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "era": "gap",
   "when": {
    "label": "undated",
    "start": null,
    "end": null
   },
   "title": "The tomb",
   "detail": "No findspot, excavation, tomb or village is recorded for any of the objects.",
   "status": "unknown",
   "gap": "G2",
   "sources": [],
   "recorded": null
  },
  {
   "id": "composite",
   "trail": "C",
   "objects": [
    "bandages",
    "wreath",
    "body"
   ],
   "era": "gap",
   "when": {
    "label": "between burial and sale",
    "start": null,
    "end": null
   },
   "title": "How materials of different ages came together",
   "detail": "That they did is measured (bandages and leaves centuries older than the body). Who combined them, and when, is not known. Two mechanisms are proposed, with no evidence that picks one.",
   "status": "unknown",
   "sources": [
    "housley1989"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1989,
    "by": "Housley et al., citing H. Whitehouse"
   },
   "gap": "G4",
   "versions": [
    {
     "text": "Ancient: embalmers of this period are known to have reused old materials.",
     "sources": [
      "housley1989"
     ]
    },
    {
     "text": "Modern: 19th-century repair, or tomb robbers rewrapping a damaged mummy with cloth from other tombs, before the sale.",
     "sources": [
      "housley1989"
     ]
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "seller",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1848–49",
    "start": 1848,
    "end": 1849
   },
   "title": "Sold by an unknown merchant",
   "detail": "The museum's own curator calls the seller 'an unknown merchant'. This is the central missing link.",
   "status": "unknown",
   "gap": "G1",
   "sources": [
    "uranic2006"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 2006,
    "by": "Uranić"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "baric-acquires",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1848–49",
    "start": 1848,
    "end": 1849
   },
   "title": "Mihael Barić, a Croat living in Vienna, acquires the mummy",
   "detail": "Every source agrees, and his heirs later gave her to the museum. No purchase document is cited anywhere.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "uranic2006",
    "impact",
    "wikipedia"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1862,
    "by": "museum records"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "in-egypt",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1848–49",
    "start": 1848,
    "end": 1849
   },
   "title": "He bought her in Egypt, on a journey there in 1848–49",
   "detail": "The journey and its date rest on one witness: Barić's niece, telling Krall in the early 1890s. Uranić states the purchase plainly, then calls it 'almost certain'. The hedge is kept.",
   "status": "inference",
   "sources": [
    "uranic2006",
    "krall1892",
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1892,
    "by": "Krall, from the niece"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "alexandria",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1848–49",
    "start": 1848,
    "end": 1849
   },
   "title": "In Alexandria",
   "detail": "Popular accounts name Alexandria. The curator says only Egypt.",
   "status": "claimed",
   "sources": [
    "wikipedia",
    "ancientorigins"
   ],
   "recorded": null
  },
  {
   "id": "chancellery",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1829–1848",
    "start": 1829,
    "end": 1848
   },
   "title": "Barić is a court official: Hofkonzipist of the Royal Hungarian Court Chancellery, pensioned at his own request in 1848",
   "detail": "Appointed in 1829 (Wiener Zeitung). Krall adds a six-year lease of the Pressburger Deutsche Zeitung from 1843.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "wz1829",
    "krall1892",
    "wz1859"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1829,
    "by": "Wiener Zeitung"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "trip",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1848–49",
    "start": 1848,
    "end": 1849
   },
   "title": "The journey: route, dates, companions",
   "detail": "Known only from the niece's recollection. Routes, dates and companions are unrecorded. His 1849 file, his probate file and the niece herself are the ways in.",
   "status": "unknown",
   "gap": "G6",
   "sources": [
    "krall1892"
   ],
   "recorded": null
  },
  {
   "id": "export",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1849",
    "start": 1849,
    "end": 1849
   },
   "title": "Export from Egypt and shipment to Vienna",
   "detail": "Egypt had banned the export of antiquities in 1835, with loose enforcement. No permit, manifest or shipping record is known.",
   "status": "unknown",
   "gap": "G5",
   "sources": [],
   "recorded": null
  },
  {
   "id": "vienna-home",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1849–1859",
    "start": 1849,
    "end": 1859
   },
   "title": "Kept at Barić's home in Vienna",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "uranic2006",
    "mirnik1986",
    "wz1859"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 2006,
    "by": "Uranić"
   },
   "detail": "She stood in his art collection. His last address, Altenfleischmarkt 728, is today Rotenturmstrasse 20; the building has been replaced."
  },
  {
   "id": "upright",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "body"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1849–1859",
    "start": 1849,
    "end": 1859
   },
   "title": "Displayed naked and fully upright on an iron rod, in a tall glass case hung with curtains",
   "detail": "The bandages and papyri lay in a second, horizontal glass case. The 'corner of his sitting room' of popular accounts is not in the documents.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "ilija-letter",
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1862,
    "by": "Ilija Barić"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "unwrapped",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "by 1859",
    "start": 1849,
    "end": 1859
   },
   "title": "Unwrapped, with the bandages displayed separately",
   "detail": "By Barić's death in 1859 she was unwrapped and the bandages shown apart. Krall could not find out when: his informants disagreed, and the niece remembered seeing her bare face before 1859. Nobody recorded what lay where.",
   "status": "established",
   "gap": "G4",
   "sources": [
    "uranic2006",
    "krall1892",
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 2006,
    "by": "Uranić"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "unwrapped-by-him",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1849–1859",
    "start": 1849,
    "end": 1859
   },
   "title": "Barić unwrapped her himself and put the bandages in a glass case",
   "detail": "Popular accounts. The curator and IMPACT say only that she was found unwrapped at his death.",
   "status": "claimed",
   "sources": [
    "ancientorigins",
    "vintagenews",
    "wikipedia"
   ],
   "recorded": null
  },
  {
   "id": "death",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "14 Dec 1859",
    "start": 1859,
    "end": 1859
   },
   "title": "Michael v. Barić dies in Vienna, aged 68",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "wz1859",
    "krall1892",
    "uranic2006"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1859,
    "by": "Wiener Zeitung"
   },
   "detail": "Death list: 'pens. königl. ung. Hofkonzipist, 68 J., Altenfleischmarkt 728, Erschöpfung der Kräfte'."
  },
  {
   "id": "heirs",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1859",
    "start": 1859,
    "end": 1859
   },
   "title": "His will leaves everything to his niece, Th. Jellinek, and names his brother Ilija executor",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "mirnik1986",
    "krall1892"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1892,
    "by": "Krall"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "ilija-priest",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1859",
    "start": 1859,
    "end": 1859
   },
   "title": "Ilija had no interest in the mummy and simply gave it away",
   "detail": "Ilija was in fact a dean, consistorial councillor and parish priest at Golubinci.",
   "status": "rejected",
   "sources": [
    "ancientorigins"
   ],
   "recorded": null,
   "rejected_by": {
    "text": "He wrote the formal declaration and a detailed letter to the Ban, argued her authenticity, and steered the transfer. The gift followed Michael's will.",
    "sources": [
     "ilija-letter",
     "mirnik1986"
    ]
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "donation",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "14 Dec 1861",
    "start": 1861,
    "end": 1861
   },
   "title": "Ilija declares the gift, as Michael's will directed",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "ilija-letter",
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1861,
    "by": "Ilija Barić"
   },
   "detail": "Written on the second anniversary of the death: the mummy goes to the planned South Slavic Academy, or failing that to the National Museum, in his brother's name. The 1986 editors think the museum choice was probably Ilija's suggestion."
  },
  {
   "id": "arrival",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "5 Aug 1862",
    "start": 1862,
    "end": 1862
   },
   "title": "Received by the National Museum on 5 August 1862, in her two glass cases",
   "detail": "The Vienna display furniture travelled with her, body and bandages already apart. She was housed in the former Drašković palace in Opatička street.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "sabljar1862",
    "mirnik1987",
    "solter2016"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1863,
    "by": "Sabljar"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "holder",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1862 – today",
    "start": 1862,
    "end": 2026
   },
   "title": "Held by the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb",
   "detail": "Then the National Museum. Everything is there today, though not necessarily everything that arrived (G7).",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "uranic2006",
    "housley1989"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1862,
    "by": "Sabljar's chronicle"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "lent-vienna",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1891–92",
    "start": 1891,
    "end": 1892
   },
   "title": "The bandages reach the Vienna University Library on 31 January 1891, on loan for about a year",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "krall1892",
    "uranic2006"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1892,
    "by": "Krall"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "display-1967",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "body"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1967",
    "start": 1967,
    "end": 1967
   },
   "title": "Put on permanent display, later sealed in a climate-controlled case after visitors' hands damaged her",
   "status": "claimed",
   "sources": [
    "impact"
   ],
   "recorded": null
  },
  {
   "id": "abegg",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "Jan–Apr 1985",
    "start": 1985,
    "end": 1985
   },
   "title": "Restored at the Abegg-Stiftung by Mechtild Flury-Lemberg and remounted as shown today",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "uranic2006",
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1986,
    "by": "Mirnik & Rendić-Miočević"
   },
   "detail": "Reconstruction supervised by Francesco Roncalli. The Centraal Laboratorium in Amsterdam analysed the inks and the 1910 glue; glue and gauze were removed."
  },
  {
   "id": "restored",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "body"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1998",
    "start": 1998,
    "end": 1998
   },
   "title": "The body is restored by Nazzareno Gabrielli of the Vatican Museums",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "uranic2006",
    "impact"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 2006,
    "by": "Uranić"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "ilija-writes",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "papyrus",
    "body"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "19 Mar 1862",
    "start": 1862,
    "end": 1862
   },
   "title": "Ilija describes her to the Ban, and says the 'palm leaves' prove she is genuine",
   "detail": "A young woman with all her teeth, nails and hair, a golden boss on her forehead, and at her side '4–5 fascicles of palm leaves, full of inscriptions and figures'. The palm leaves are the papyri; the papyrus–mummy link starts here, as an heir's argument.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "ilija-letter",
    "mirnik1986",
    "uranic2006"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1862,
    "by": "Ilija Barić"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "sabljar",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1862",
    "start": 1862,
    "end": 1862
   },
   "title": "Curator Mijat Sabljar logs the bandages as written with 'Egyptian letters'",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "sabljar1862",
    "mirnik1986",
    "uranic2006"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1862,
    "by": "Sabljar"
   },
   "detail": "His label in the vitrine credited the donor: 'Mumia iz Misira (Aegypten). Poklonio gosp. Ilia Barić'."
  },
  {
   "id": "egyptian-script",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1862–1891",
    "start": 1862,
    "end": 1891
   },
   "title": "The writing on the bandages is Egyptian",
   "detail": "The working assumption for three decades.",
   "status": "rejected",
   "sources": [
    "sabljar1862",
    "wikipedia"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1862,
    "by": "Sabljar"
   },
   "rejected_by": {
    "text": "Krall identified the language as Etruscan.",
    "sources": [
     "krall1892",
     "uranic2006"
    ]
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "brugsch",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1869",
    "start": 1869,
    "end": 1869
   },
   "title": "Heinrich Brugsch finds writing on a folded-back edge, combs through 40 metres of linen, and cannot name the script",
   "detail": "Invited by the new curator Šime Ljubić to arrange the Egyptian collection, he saw the script was alphabetic and copied it, then told Krall only in 1891, by letter.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "mirnik1986",
    "uranic2006",
    "krall1892"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1892,
    "by": "Krall"
   },
   "note": "One 1892 newspaper (Grazer Tagblatt) gives 1868."
  },
  {
   "id": "burton-talk",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1877",
    "start": 1877,
    "end": 1877
   },
   "title": "A talk with Richard Burton about runes convinces Brugsch the script is not Egyptian",
   "detail": "Only Wikipedia tells this story. The 1986 account, after Krall, has Burton seeing the bandages himself in Zagreb in 1877.",
   "status": "claimed",
   "sources": [
    "wikipedia"
   ],
   "recorded": null
  },
  {
   "id": "burton-1879",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1879",
    "start": 1879,
    "end": 1879
   },
   "title": "Burton publishes the text as runic, in 'The Ogham-Runes and el-Mushajjar'",
   "detail": "From a copy made in 1878 by his vice-consul in Trieste, Philip Proby Cautley.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "burton1879",
    "mirnik1986",
    "uranic2006"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1879,
    "by": "Burton"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "brugsch-letter",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1891",
    "start": 1891,
    "end": 1891
   },
   "title": "Brugsch writes to Jakob Krall about 'an interesting monument in Zagreb'",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "uranic2006"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 2006,
    "by": "Uranić"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "krall",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1891–92",
    "start": 1891,
    "end": 1892
   },
   "title": "Jakob Krall identifies the language as Etruscan",
   "detail": "He first saw the bandages on 3 February 1891 and drafted the finding for Deecke and Pauli that August. His 1892 monograph brought in J. M. Eder's orthochromatic photographs, J. Wiesner's analysis of linen and ink, and V. von Ebner's study of her hair.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "krall1892",
    "uranic2006",
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1892,
    "by": "Krall"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "translation",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1892 – today",
    "start": 1892,
    "end": 2026
   },
   "title": "No accepted translation",
   "detail": "A century of readings, from Lattes and Pallottino to Olzscha, then the editions of van der Meer (2007) and Belfiore (2010). A 2014 review judged a newer full translation less coherent than the ones before it.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "uranic2006",
    "bmcr2014",
    "vandermeer2007",
    "belfiore2010"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 2014,
    "by": "BMCR"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "volume-1986",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1986",
    "start": 1986,
    "end": 1986
   },
   "title": "The museum's 1986 volume prints the transfer documents, X-rays, radiocarbon and the cat skull",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "mirnik1986",
    "srdoc1986",
    "plavsic1986",
    "tvrtkovic1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1986,
    "by": "VAMZ 19"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "assemblage",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1988–89",
    "start": 1988,
    "end": 1989
   },
   "title": "Three laboratories show the mummy is an assemblage of different ages",
   "detail": "Fifteen dates across book, body, bandages, leaves and unguent, spanning more than a thousand years.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "housley1989"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1989,
    "by": "Housley et al."
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "uranic-papyrus",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "papyrus",
    "body"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "2006",
    "start": 2006,
    "end": 2006
   },
   "title": "The curator publishes the papyrus and finds no proof it belongs to her",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "uranic2006"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 2006,
    "by": "Uranić"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "volume-2019",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "2019",
    "start": 2019,
    "end": 2019
   },
   "title": "The museum's volume Liber i mumija dates the papyrus a century after the mummy",
   "detail": "Known only through a search summary. Not read.",
   "status": "claimed",
   "sources": [
    "amz2019"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 2019,
    "by": "AMZ"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "baric-life",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "c. 1791–1850",
    "start": 1791,
    "end": 1850
   },
   "title": "Michael Barić: born in Semeljci, Slavonia, about 1791; studied theology, never ordained",
   "detail": "Around 1850 he parcelled out land he owned in Vienna's 3rd district, where Barichgasse still bears his name. He kept an art collection.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "mirnik1986",
    "krall1892"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1892,
    "by": "Krall"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "still-wrapped",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1848–49",
    "start": 1848,
    "end": 1849
   },
   "title": "She was still fully wrapped when he bought her",
   "detail": "The 1986 editors say so but mark it as their own conjecture.",
   "status": "claimed",
   "sources": [
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1986,
    "by": "Mirnik & Rendić-Miočević"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "reentry-1849",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1849",
    "start": 1849,
    "end": 1849
   },
   "title": "Back from Egypt, he applies to re-enter service and is refused",
   "detail": "File Z. 23726/1849 of the Ministry of the Interior. Krall placed it in the Hungarian national archives; the 1986 editors in the state archive in Vienna.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "krall1892",
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1892,
    "by": "Krall"
   },
   "note": "Where the file is today is contested between the two sources and unverified."
  },
  {
   "id": "academy-accepts",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "May 1862",
    "start": 1862,
    "end": 1862
   },
   "title": "The Academy's committee, chaired by Ambroz Vraniczany, accepts the gift 'with great joy'",
   "detail": "The printed edition disagrees with itself about the dates. Only the manuscript (Arhiv Hrvatske 462*1862) can settle them.",
   "status": "contested",
   "sources": [
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1862,
    "by": "committee minutes"
   },
   "versions": [
    {
     "text": "Meeting 7 March, reply 13 May (the 1986 narrative, p. 43).",
     "sources": [
      "mirnik1986"
     ]
    },
    {
     "text": "Meeting 7 May, letter closed 18 May (document IV, p. 54).",
     "sources": [
      "mirnik1986"
     ]
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "inspection",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "Jul 1862",
    "start": 1862,
    "end": 1862
   },
   "title": "Officials inspect the Vienna apartment, and an expert packer prescribes three crates",
   "detail": "Ivan Mažuranić of the court chancellery reports on 19 July that the inspection 'matches Ilija's description almost completely'. One crate for the mummy alone, one for the empty case, one for bandages and the second case. The vice-regal council approves on 22 July.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1862,
    "by": "Mažuranić"
   },
   "note": "The packer's institution is uncertain in the OCR; it may read as the Ambras collection."
  },
  {
   "id": "transport",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "Jul 1862",
    "start": 1862,
    "end": 1862
   },
   "title": "By rail to Zidani Most, then by carriage with an escort to Zagreb",
   "detail": "The Vienna accounts: crates 45 fl, removal and rail 25 fl 70 kr, telegram 4 fl 20 kr, stated total 75 fl 20 kr. The items sum to 74 fl 90 kr; the 30 kr gap is reported, not repaired. The Zagreb leg cost 10 fl 48 kr, and the file closed on 4 September 1862 with 14 fl 32 kr returned.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1862,
    "by": "chancellery accounts"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "arrival-july",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "22–25 Jul 1862",
    "start": 1862,
    "end": 1862
   },
   "title": "She physically reached Zagreb between 22 and 25 July 1862",
   "detail": "Proposed by the 1986 editors. The 25 July accounts only reach Zidani Most, so they do not pin the Zagreb end. Arrival first and formal receipt on 5 August is a possible reading, not an established sequence.",
   "status": "inference",
   "sources": [
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1986,
    "by": "Mirnik & Rendić-Miočević"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "arrival-wrong",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1867, 1868 or 1885",
    "start": 1867,
    "end": 1885
   },
   "title": "She came to the museum in 1867, 1868 or 1885",
   "detail": "1867 is Wikipedia's year, 1868 National Geographic's, 1885 the unexplained 'date of acquisition' in the IMPACT header. 1868 is when the museum bought Franz Koller's Egyptian collection in Prague, a likely source of the confusion.",
   "status": "rejected",
   "sources": [
    "wikipedia",
    "natgeo",
    "impact"
   ],
   "rejected_by": {
    "text": "The museum's receipt records her arrival on 5 August 1862, and the transfer file closed in September 1862.",
    "sources": [
     "sabljar1862",
     "mirnik1987",
     "mirnik1986"
    ]
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "receipt-date",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "Mar 1863",
    "start": 1863,
    "end": 1863
   },
   "title": "The receipt is written up in March 1863",
   "detail": "Both versions give the same 5 August arrival. They may be two records or an editorial difference; the manuscripts are unchecked.",
   "status": "contested",
   "sources": [
    "mirnik1987",
    "solter2016"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1863,
    "by": "Sabljar"
   },
   "versions": [
    {
     "text": "Receipt note dated 10 March 1863.",
     "sources": [
      "mirnik1987"
     ]
    },
    {
     "text": "Gift register AAMZ 23, 'Opis darovah 1855–64', entry dated 2 March 1863.",
     "sources": [
      "solter2016"
     ]
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "ilija-inventory",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "body",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "19 Mar 1862",
    "start": 1862,
    "end": 1862
   },
   "title": "Ilija's inventory: a golden boss on her forehead and '4–5 fascicles' of papyrus",
   "detail": "He places the boss 'where the brain was probably extracted'. This establishes what he described, not that it was ancient or still with her.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "ilija-letter",
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1862,
    "by": "Ilija Barić"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "inventory-drift",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1862 – today",
    "start": 1862,
    "end": 2026
   },
   "title": "What arrived in 1862, and what is there now",
   "detail": "No modern account mentions a gold object, and the known papyri are Zagreb 602 with Book of the Dead fragments, not obviously four or five fascicles. Meanwhile a glass-paste bead necklace and wreath fragments were first shown in 1986 with no 1862 mention. Differences in description do not yet prove loss or substitution.",
   "status": "unknown",
   "gap": "G7",
   "sources": [
    "ilija-letter",
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": null
  },
  {
   "id": "laid-flat",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "body"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1892 or c. 1900",
    "start": 1892,
    "end": 1900
   },
   "title": "The upright display ends and she is laid horizontal",
   "detail": "Photographs pin her still upright in 1890–91. The two accounts may describe two episodes; they are not merged.",
   "status": "contested",
   "sources": [
    "solter2016",
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1986,
    "by": "Mirnik & Rendić-Miočević"
   },
   "versions": [
    {
     "text": "1892, by Šime Ljubić with the physician Antun Lobmayer (photo caption).",
     "sources": [
      "solter2016"
     ]
    },
    {
     "text": "Around 1900, after the petroleum bath weakened her joints.",
     "sources": [
      "mirnik1986"
     ]
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "petroleum",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "body"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "c. 1900",
    "start": 1900,
    "end": 1900
   },
   "title": "Bookworms attack her legs, and the museum kills them with a long petroleum bath",
   "detail": "The worms died, but her joints were weakened. This is very likely the kerosene the 1989 laboratory had to wash out of its tissue sample.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "mirnik1986",
    "housley1989"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1986,
    "by": "Mirnik & Rendić-Miočević"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "gabrielli-1984",
   "trail": "A",
   "objects": [
    "body"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "Dec 1984",
    "start": 1984,
    "end": 1984
   },
   "title": "Nazzareno Gabrielli finds the body desiccated and 'slowly turning to dust'",
   "detail": "Without treatment her skeleton would be exposed within decades. His restoration followed in 1998.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1986,
    "by": "Mirnik & Rendić-Miočević"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "exhibitions-1985",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1985–86",
    "start": 1985,
    "end": 1986
   },
   "title": "Shown in Perugia (Scrivere etrusco, 1985) and Zagreb (Pisati etruščanski, 1986)",
   "detail": "In Zagreb the hospital X-rays, a necklace of coloured glass-paste beads and fragments of the leaf wreath were shown in public for the first time.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1986,
    "by": "Mirnik & Rendić-Miočević"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "brugsch-1859",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1859",
    "start": 1859,
    "end": 1859
   },
   "title": "Brugsch examined mummy and bandages in 1859 and took the writing for hieroglyphs",
   "status": "rejected",
   "sources": [
    "wikipedia"
   ],
   "rejected_by": {
    "text": "Brugsch saw the bandages in Zagreb in 1869, saw the script was alphabetic, and could not name it.",
    "sources": [
     "mirnik1986",
     "uranic2006",
     "krall1892"
    ]
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "ljubic-catalogues",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "body",
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1870 and 1889",
    "start": 1870,
    "end": 1889
   },
   "title": "Ljubić catalogues the mummy and bandages first in the Egyptian collection",
   "detail": "1870 in the museum's Viestnik; 1889 in his printed catalogue, with two pages and a plate.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1870,
    "by": "Ljubić"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "leipzig-1872",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1872",
    "start": 1872,
    "end": 1872
   },
   "title": "A request to lend the book to the Leipzig congress of philologists is refused",
   "detail": "Asked on the strength of Brugsch's report. Museum and government both said no.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "mirnik1986",
    "mirnik1987"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1872,
    "by": "Leipzig request"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "burton-visit",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1877",
    "start": 1877,
    "end": 1877
   },
   "title": "Richard Burton sees the bandages himself, on a visit to Zagreb",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "mirnik1986",
    "krall1892"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1892,
    "by": "Krall"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "bojnicic",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "body",
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1880 or 1882",
    "start": 1880,
    "end": 1882
   },
   "title": "A catalogue entry calls the bandages 'an unknown Egyptian script' and one of the museum's foremost treasures",
   "detail": "By I. v. Bojničić in the Kroatische Revue. It is the entry that later caught Krall's eye, and the ancestor of most later retellings.",
   "status": "contested",
   "sources": [
    "bojnicic",
    "krall1892",
    "nfp1905",
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1880,
    "by": "Bojničić"
   },
   "versions": [
    {
     "text": "1880, first issue.",
     "sources": [
      "krall1892"
     ]
    },
    {
     "text": "1882, vol. 3, p. 130.",
     "sources": [
      "mirnik1986"
     ]
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "krsnjavi",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1890–92",
    "start": 1890,
    "end": 1892
   },
   "title": "Iso Kršnjavi informs Emperor Franz Joseph I of the discovery",
   "detail": "The 1986 footnote prints the date as '17. I. 1890', before the bandages even reached Krall. The date as printed cannot be right.",
   "status": "claimed",
   "sources": [
    "krsnjavi",
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1986,
    "by": "Mirnik & Rendić-Miočević"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "press-1892",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "Jan 1892",
    "start": 1892,
    "end": 1892
   },
   "title": "The discovery reaches the newspapers",
   "detail": "The Vienna and Graz reports share their wording, so they count as one witness. Krall also wrote it up himself in the Agramer Zeitung, no. 67/1892, which is not yet found.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "press1892",
    "krall1892"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1892,
    "by": "Deutsches Volksblatt"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "herbig-1910",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1910",
    "start": 1910,
    "end": 1910
   },
   "title": "Gustav Herbig finds one more inscribed piece among the leftover bandages",
   "detail": "The 'new' or Herbig fragment, from the book's beginning. The museum's director Josip Brunšmid then glues all the strips to coarse gauze, a mounting undone in 1985.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1911,
    "by": "Herbig"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "rostock-1913",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1913–14",
    "start": 1913,
    "end": 1914
   },
   "title": "In Rostock, Rudolf Kobert cleans the Herbig fragment, and the rest of the plan dies with the war",
   "detail": "Working unpaid, Kobert found the dark stains carry iron salts, 'probably from decomposed blood', eating the fabric. The museum then valued the strips at one million crowns and kept the inscribed ones in its treasury. Herbig thought cleaning could recover about a quarter of the text; the last letter is answered on 6 January 1914.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1913,
    "by": "Herbig, Kobert, Brunšmid"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "plotnikov",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1932–35",
    "start": 1932,
    "end": 1935
   },
   "title": "Ivan Plotnikov's infrared photographs make stained passages readable",
   "detail": "90 of the 245 lines were photographed, and published by Runes and Cortsen in 1935.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1935,
    "by": "Runes & Cortsen"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "vetter-1940",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "Jul 1940",
    "start": 1940,
    "end": 1940
   },
   "title": "Emil Vetter offers free infrared photography in Vienna, and the museum declines for now",
   "detail": "Hoffiller's reply is procedural, not hostile, and notes Pallottino also wants images, but 'now is just not the right time to travel the world with such monuments'.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1940,
    "by": "Vetter and Hoffiller"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "lukan-1966",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "book"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1966–67",
    "start": 1966,
    "end": 1967
   },
   "title": "The whole book is photographed in infrared at the police criminological institute",
   "detail": "Ivan Lukan took 86 photographs under curator Vera Vejvoda; Ramiza Pfleger made a linen facsimile from them. They were first reproduced in full in 1986.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1986,
    "by": "Mirnik & Rendić-Miočević"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "papers-found",
   "trail": "B",
   "objects": [
    "book",
    "bandages",
    "body",
    "wreath",
    "papyrus"
   ],
   "when": {
    "label": "1952",
    "start": 1952,
    "end": 1952
   },
   "title": "The 1861–62 transfer documents turn up among Bishop Strossmayer's papers",
   "detail": "Found by V. Košćak and excerpted in the newspaper Vjesnik on 21 June 1962.",
   "status": "established",
   "sources": [
    "mirnik1986"
   ],
   "recorded": {
    "year": 1962,
    "by": "Košćak"
   }
  }
 ],
 "gaps": [
  {
   "id": "G1",
   "trail": "A",
   "title": "The seller",
   "detail": "Who sold the mummy in 1848–49. Even the museum calls him an unknown merchant."
  },
  {
   "id": "G2",
   "trail": "A",
   "title": "The tomb",
   "detail": "Where she was buried and how she left the ground. The Theban guess rests on a papyrus that may not be hers."
  },
  {
   "id": "G3",
   "trail": "C",
   "title": "The crossing",
   "detail": "How an Etruscan sacred book reached an Egyptian embalming workshop. Probably unanswerable without G2."
  },
  {
   "id": "G4",
   "trail": "C",
   "title": "What belongs together",
   "detail": "The unwrapping happened at an unknown time and was never documented. The bandages and leaves are of different ages, and the papyrus link is an heir's argument. Which objects were really found with which is open."
  },
  {
   "id": "G5",
   "trail": "A",
   "title": "The export",
   "detail": "How a mummy left Egypt in 1849 under an export ban, and how it reached Vienna."
  },
  {
   "id": "G6",
   "trail": "A",
   "title": "The journey",
   "detail": "Barić's route, dates and companions in 1848–49, known only from his niece's recollection. Ways in: file Z. 23726/1849, the probate file, the niece."
  },
  {
   "id": "G7",
   "trail": "A",
   "title": "Inventory drift",
   "detail": "Ilija's 1862 description lists a golden forehead boss and four or five papyrus fascicles; modern accounts know no gold object, and add a bead necklace and wreath fragments first shown in 1986. What arrived, what was recorded, what remains?"
  }
 ],
 "leads": [
  {
   "id": "L1",
   "state": "open",
   "title": "Agramer Zeitung, July–August 1862 and no. 67/1892",
   "why": "Zagreb's own coverage of the arrival, and Krall's own article. ANNO does not hold either year.",
   "closes": [
    "arrival-july",
    "press-1892"
   ],
   "where": "National and University Library (NSK), Zagreb, on paper or microfilm. The NSK digital catalogue finds no 1862 issues.",
   "url": "https://digitalna.nsk.hr/",
   "access": "library request"
  },
  {
   "id": "L2",
   "state": "open",
   "title": "Barić's will and probate file, Vienna 1859",
   "why": "The will directed the gift. It may describe the mummy, the purchase, or papers that came with her.",
   "closes": [
    "G1",
    "G4",
    "G6"
   ],
   "where": "Vienna probate records, probably the Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv. Not yet confirmed.",
   "access": "archive request"
  },
  {
   "id": "L3",
   "state": "open",
   "title": "File Z. 23726/1849",
   "why": "Barić's 1849 application could date the journey and say where he went.",
   "closes": [
    "G6",
    "reentry-1849"
   ],
   "where": "Hungarian national archives (Krall) or the state archive in Vienna (1986). Shelfmark unknown.",
   "access": "archive request"
  },
  {
   "id": "L4",
   "state": "open",
   "title": "Find Th. Jellinek",
   "why": "The niece and principal heir, and the source of the 1848–49 date. Her estate may hold Barić's papers.",
   "closes": [
    "G6",
    "trip"
   ],
   "where": "Lehmann's Vienna address books of the 1890s; estate records.",
   "access": "partly online"
  },
  {
   "id": "L5",
   "state": "open",
   "title": "The Kroatische Revue entry, 1880 or 1882",
   "why": "The wording-ancestor of most later retellings. Settles its own year.",
   "closes": [
    "bojnicic"
   ],
   "where": "Kroatische Revue, Zagreb.",
   "access": "library"
  },
  {
   "id": "L6",
   "state": "open",
   "title": "Abegg-Stiftung and Amsterdam records, 1985",
   "why": "Residues on the strips could show whether the book ever touched this body's unguent, and whether Kobert's 1913 chemicals are still on the Herbig fragment.",
   "closes": [
    "G4",
    "book-this-body"
   ],
   "where": "Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg; Centraal Laboratorium, Amsterdam.",
   "access": "request"
  },
  {
   "id": "L7",
   "state": "open",
   "title": "Herbig 1911, p. 6",
   "why": "A garbled footnote seems to list wood, painted fragments and a small mummified animal among the wreath remains.",
   "closes": [
    "G7"
   ],
   "where": "Herbig's 1911 publication on the text.",
   "access": "library"
  },
  {
   "id": "L8",
   "state": "open",
   "title": "Read Liber i mumija (2019)",
   "why": "Check the claim that the papyrus is a century younger than the mummy, and how it is argued.",
   "closes": [
    "G4",
    "papyrus-is-her"
   ],
   "where": "Archaeological Museum in Zagreb, 2019.",
   "access": "library or museum"
  },
  {
   "id": "L9",
   "state": "partly",
   "title": "Read Krall 1892 beyond the introduction",
   "why": "The introduction yielded the niece, the 1849 file and the 1891 dates. The rest may hold more.",
   "closes": [
    "G4",
    "unwrapped"
   ],
   "where": "Salomon Reinach project PDF; HathiTrust.",
   "url": "https://tpsalomonreinach.mom.fr/files/original/91c9add56ea3ccc5fa17d4b6e9ff99e139074cbe.pdf",
   "access": "public domain"
  },
  {
   "id": "L10",
   "state": "partly",
   "title": "Read Burton 1879 in full",
   "why": "Whether Burton's own text mentions a conversation with Brugsch.",
   "closes": [
    "burton-talk"
   ],
   "where": "Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, vol. 12.",
   "access": "public domain"
  },
  {
   "id": "L11",
   "state": "partly",
   "title": "Vienna newspapers, summer 1862",
   "why": "Die Presse and Wiener Zeitung for 22–31 July and 5–8 August 1862 were screened with nothing found. 1–4 August and later August remain.",
   "closes": [
    "arrival-july"
   ],
   "where": "ANNO",
   "url": "https://anno.onb.ac.at",
   "access": "free, full text"
  },
  {
   "id": "L12",
   "state": "open",
   "title": "Trace the 'divine tailor' title",
   "why": "Find where it comes from: an older reading, a museum label, or a mistake copied forward.",
   "closes": [
    "papyrus-tailor"
   ],
   "where": "Older museum guides, early press, IMPACT's unpublished source.",
   "access": "mixed"
  },
  {
   "id": "L13",
   "state": "open",
   "title": "Find Perekh-Khons and Nesi-Khons elsewhere",
   "why": "Uranić notes a Nesi-Khons, prophetess of Hathor, on a statue pedestal in the British Museum. Other monuments could point to a family tomb at Thebes.",
   "closes": [
    "G2",
    "papyrus-is-her"
   ],
   "where": "Topographical Bibliography (Porter & Moss) vol. VIII, no. 801-768-140; British Museum collection search.",
   "access": "partly online"
  },
  {
   "id": "L14",
   "state": "open",
   "title": "Danielsson's papers, Uppsala",
   "why": "The editor of the Etruscan corpus was consulted in December 1913; the Rostock plan may survive in his correspondence.",
   "closes": [
    "rostock-1913"
   ],
   "where": "Uppsala University Library.",
   "access": "archive request"
  },
  {
   "id": "L15",
   "state": "open",
   "title": "Košćak's article in Vjesnik, 21 June 1962",
   "why": "How the transfer documents surfaced from Strossmayer's papers.",
   "closes": [
    "papers-found"
   ],
   "where": "Vjesnik, Zagreb, 21 June 1962.",
   "access": "library"
  },
  {
   "id": "L16",
   "state": "open",
   "title": "Kršnjavi's Zapisci, vol. I",
   "why": "Settle the date of the emperor's briefing.",
   "closes": [
    "krsnjavi"
   ],
   "where": "Kršnjavi, Zapisci I, Zagreb 1986, p. 34.",
   "access": "library"
  },
  {
   "id": "L17",
   "state": "open",
   "title": "Antiquities dealers in 1840s Egypt",
   "why": "Context for the seller, including Anastasi's 1857 sale catalogue. Context only, never a claim about Barić.",
   "closes": [
    "G1"
   ],
   "where": "Dealer histories and sale catalogues.",
   "access": "mixed"
  },
  {
   "id": "L18",
   "state": "open",
   "title": "Etruscans and Italian linen in Late and Ptolemaic Egypt",
   "why": "Any trace of Etruscan people, or Italian linen in trade or reuse, in Egypt between 400 and 200 BC.",
   "closes": [
    "G3",
    "body-identity"
   ],
   "where": "Scholarship on foreigners in Egypt; the other known libri lintei.",
   "access": "library"
  },
  {
   "id": "L19",
   "state": "open",
   "title": "Austrian Lloyd arrivals, Trieste 1849",
   "why": "A mummy and sarcophagus almost certainly came by steamer; arrivals were printed.",
   "closes": [
    "G5"
   ],
   "where": "Triester Zeitung in ANNO; Lloyd archives in Trieste.",
   "access": "partly online"
  },
  {
   "id": "L20",
   "state": "done",
   "title": "Mirnik & Rendić-Miočević 1986",
   "why": "Read in full on 13–14 November: the 1861–62 transfer file, Barić's life, the conservation history to 1986. The plate images are still to look at.",
   "closes": [
    "G4"
   ],
   "where": "VAMZ 3rd ser. 19 (1986).",
   "url": "https://hrcak.srce.hr/en/26862",
   "access": "online"
  },
  {
   "id": "L21",
   "state": "done",
   "title": "The museum receipt",
   "why": "Found: 5 August 1862, in two glass cases. Ended the 1867/1868 question.",
   "closes": [
    "arrival"
   ],
   "where": "Mirnik & Rendić-Miočević 1987: 32; Šolter 2016: 36.",
   "access": "online"
  }
 ]
}