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News post about visits to communities in Gharb Soheil and New Aniba in February 2023

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+layout: news
+title: Visit to Nubian communities in Gharb Soheil and New Aniba
+category: news
+date: 2023-02-10
+updated: 2023-01-08
+author: Helen Strudwick
+tags: [CT scanning, yellow coffin, Nespawershefyt, Addenbrooke's Hospital, construction]
+permalink: /news/newCTscanning
+thumbnail: /images/news/CTscanningJan23.jpg
+images:
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+    image: news/CTunloadingJan23.jpg
+    caption: The sun shines during the unloading of objects for CT scanning at Addenbrooke's Hospital.
+  -
+    image: news/CTunwrappingJan23.jpg
+    caption: Flavia Ravaioli lifts the final layer of tissue paper off the front of Nespawershefyt's mummy board.
+  -
+    image: news/CTscanningJan23.jpg
+    caption: CT Radiographer Lauren England checks the position of Nespawershefyt's mummy board in the CT scanner.
+  -
+    image: news/CTscanningunderwayJan23.jpg
+    caption: CT Radiographer Lauren England watches the progress of the first scan on a computer screen.
+  -
+    image: news/CTheadendJan23.jpg
+    caption: Julie Dawson positions the head end of another yellow coffin (E.1.2004) for scanning.
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+
+This morning, we were able to undertake new CT scanning of part of the [coffin set of Nespawershefyt](https://egyptiancoffins.org/coffins/nespawershefyt). Although we 
+have X-radiographed the mummy board in the past, its construction was not absolutely clear. Colleagues at [Addenbrooke's Hospital](https://www.cuh.nhs.uk/) 
+(part of Cambridge University Hospitals) generously offered to CT scan it out of hours, on a Sunday morning when the scanner would not normally be in use. 
+We were very conscious that the scanner might be needed if there was a call for an emergency CT scan to be carried out, in which case we would have immediately got 
+out of the way to allow that to happen. Happily nothing like that occurred. We were joined by our brilliant CT scanning advisor and friend 
+[Tom Turmezei](https://egyptiancoffins.org/team/tom-turmezei), Consultant Radiologist at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. 
+
+At Addenbrooke's, we were met by CT radiographer Lauren England who carried out the scanning using a relatively new Siemens scanner. This seemed to be really 
+speedy at scanning, and the results that appeared immediately on the computer screen looked amazingly detailed. 
+In particular, the scans seemed to show some interesting carpentry in the area of the face that had not been visible at all on the earlier
+X-radiographs. We are excited to see what detailed examination of the scans will show up about how this part of the mummy board was put together. 
+Something else we discovered (not about the mummy board)
+was that the sheets we had initially put underneath to support it appeared to be very similar in density to the wood, and this was likely to
+make the analysis of the scans a bit awkward. So we replaced them with pillows, and the problem disappeared -- a useful lesson learned!
+
+At the same time, we took another part of a coffin to be scanned: the [head end from a yellow coffin](https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/98444), which is
+of a similar date. We have not yet explored this object in a lot of detail. Again, the immediate results from the scans were really promising as we could see how 
+the wood had been worked to create the shape of the head end, and the way the holes for dowels had been angled. 
+
+We are hugely grateful to Tom and Lauren for giving up their Sunday mornings for this scanning, and to Rob Mackenzie, CT Scanning 
+Manager at Addenbrooke's for facilitating the visit today. The Fitzwilliam team consisted of [Flavia Ravaioli](https://egyptiancoffins.org/team/flavia-ravaioli/), 
+[Julie Dawson](https://egyptiancoffins.org/team/julie-dawson/) and 
+[Helen Strudwick](https://egyptiancoffins.org/team/helen-strudwick/).