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Head, outer coffin, before conservation 2016. Base and lid of the anthropoid wooden outer coffin of Nestawedjat, Lady of the House, daughter of Djedmutiufankh. The lid, damaged by fire, was covered with stucco and painted with polychrome vignettes, showing the ba-bird revisiting the mummy in the tomb, the mummy on the funerary bed with canopic jars, and inscribed with hieroglyphs, including prayers for offerings, the interior of the base is decorated with a figure of Sokar, with solar disc with uraei above, and flanked by figures of Isis and Nephthys, the exterior is painted with decorative friezes above and below a horizontal register of hieroglyphs.
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