"Mummy" in German attic? Pull the other one.

Slow news day today obviously...  Ten year old boy finds a "mummy" in Granny's attic in Diepholz, Lower Saxony, and a number of newspapers write about it with the full range of silly puns. The lightweight coffin is modern (with wholly improbable lid design), lined with modern curtains with Egyptian-style pattern, fixed upside-down. The inside of the lid and sides of the casket are  covered with a repeating pattern that I bet is wallpaper with designs based (ever so loosely) on the depiction of Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun from the ivory box in KV 62 and a big-bottomed Maat kneeling in front of Hathor protecting the royal cartouche with her wings ultimately copied  from QV 66 Nefertari's tomb, but also a frequent subject of all those tourist papyri. The cartouches - as far as they can be made out from the oblique photos - are therefore a mishmash of 18th and 19th dynasty names. The "mummy" is grey, the bandages look to be stuck down (wallpaper paste?) and the arms are rather wobbly. The pose (note left-over-right) owes more to film than real ancient burial practice. The whole thing is contained in a padded travelling case with handles and castors. There is a super-naff mummy mask (ceramic with gold lustre glaze [!] - or is it resin?) and an equally naff (and single) "canopic jar" also with their own travelling cases. What's the betting a travelling funfair left part of the contents of a 'house of horrors' sideshow temporarily with Grandma's husband a couple of decades ago and failed to come back for them?

video here

It's not part of the pre-release hype for another mummy film is it?

Vignette: deja vu?

UPDATE 25.09.13
No big surprise, surely: Damien McElroy, '2,000-year-old German mummy is plastic dummy', Telegraph 25 Sep 2013.