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Part of a wooden coffin

Egyptian antiquities (712 - 730 B.C.)
W: 42.00 cm H: 44.00 cm

Encaustic painting on wooden chip. The beginning of the hieroglyphic writing is preserved, at the end of which the deceased's name would be mentioned. God Anubis in the form of a jackal is sitting on the upper part, which consummates the inscription with the typical refrain "to be offered by the king to...". This scene is framed by four figures, Horus's sons, two at each side. At the upper part of the chip, the lower part of the famed herbal useh with terminals in the shape of a droplet.

CATEGORY
Funerary equipment
KIND
Coffin
MATERIAL
Wood
EGYPTIAN PERIOD_WOODEN FRAGMENT OF MUMMY'S BURIAL FIGURINE_253_Sep 16 2022

Part of a wooden coffin

(712 - 730 B.C.)
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