# Allamistakeo — Short Fiction character guide

> Allamistakeo in Short Fiction by Edgar Allan Poe.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0057-some-words-with-a-mummy

## Snapshot

A mummy of ancient Egyptian nobility who, once revived, proves less a relic than a critic—calmly measuring modern civilization against the standards of a far older one.

## Who they are

Allamistakeo arrives in the story as a specimen to be unwrapped, catalogued, and admired, but his resurrection reverses the gaze entirely. He possesses an unhurried dignity and a devastatingly polite contempt for the discoveries and pretensions of the nineteenth century. His presence turns a scientific lark into a quiet, comic inquest on progress, and his exchanges with his hosts give the tale its sharpest edge.

## In the story

### [Some Words with a Mummy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_14_se/chapters/some-words-with-a-mummy)

The mummy, identified as Count Allamistakeo, revives after the application of electricity and converses with the group.

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