"corn mummy" meaning in English

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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 February 16, Don Blattner, Seven Wonders of the World and More!, Grades 5 - 8, Mark Twain Media, page 9",
          "text": "[This] corn mummy had a mask of Osiris. The purpose of the corn mummy was to help the spirit of the deceased to join Osiris in the afterlife.",
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        {
          "ref": "2014 April 30, Alexandre Chevalier, Elena Marinova, Leonor Pena-Chocarro, Plants and People: Choices and Diversity through Time, Oxbow Books, page 327",
          "text": "[A] corn mummy from Ulm, showing sprouted barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) grains embedded in their soil matrix.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 April 24, Lisa K. Sabbahy, All Things Ancient Egypt [2 volumes]: An Encyclopedia of the Ancient Egyptian World [2 volumes], Bloomsbury Publishing USA, page 393",
          "text": "[The] corn mummy from the year before was taken out of the coffin and buried in a cemetery just for this purpose. By the end of the Late Period ( 343 BCE ), there were corn mummy cemeteries all over Egypt.",
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        "An Ancient Egyptian sculpture of Osiris, often made of wax or earth, that contained germinated grain seeds (commonly wheat or barley)."
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        {
          "word": "corn-mummy"
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  "word": "corn mummy"
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          "ref": "2009 February 16, Don Blattner, Seven Wonders of the World and More!, Grades 5 - 8, Mark Twain Media, page 9",
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        },
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          "ref": "2014 April 30, Alexandre Chevalier, Elena Marinova, Leonor Pena-Chocarro, Plants and People: Choices and Diversity through Time, Oxbow Books, page 327",
          "text": "[A] corn mummy from Ulm, showing sprouted barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) grains embedded in their soil matrix.",
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          "ref": "2019 April 24, Lisa K. Sabbahy, All Things Ancient Egypt [2 volumes]: An Encyclopedia of the Ancient Egyptian World [2 volumes], Bloomsbury Publishing USA, page 393",
          "text": "[The] corn mummy from the year before was taken out of the coffin and buried in a cemetery just for this purpose. By the end of the Late Period ( 343 BCE ), there were corn mummy cemeteries all over Egypt.",
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      "word": "corn-mummy"
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  "word": "corn mummy"
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