Corn mummy

A corn mummy or germinating Osiris¹ is an Ancient Egyptian sculpture of Osiris that contained germinated grain seeds, commonly wheat or barley.²³⁴ The rest of the mummy was made up of other materials such as wax, sand and earth.²³ They were fitted with masks most commonly made of wax but sometimes silver.⁵ The mummies were provided with wooden coffins.²³

They seem to have been buried as part of certain festivals such as Khoiak.²³ They were also buried in tombs as part of funerary paraphernalia, with a notable example being found in the tomb of Horemheb, KV57, in the Valley of the Kings.⁶