Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by function]
6. colorant (material)
7. pigments
8. [pigment by color]
9. brown pigment
10. organic brown pigment
11. asphaltum (pigment)

Anotations

Scope note:

A bituminous pigment that is dark brown in color and was prepared during the16th-17th centuries by grinding Egyptian mummies that had been embalmed with asphaltum or bitumen. The ground mummy residue was believed to produce a pigment that was more durable than fresh asphaltum. In the 19th century, mummy brown was used as a transparent brown pigment for oil painting and for oil glazes. Some substitutes, such as Vandyke brown and bituminous earth pigments, were also sold under the name of "mummy."