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Base and lid of the anthropoid wooden coffin of Harsinakht, with rich polychrome painted decoration on a black ground: elaborate wig and floral collar with a pectoral, with squatting figures of Osiris, Isis and a solar deity; Nut, with outstretched wings, flanked by crowned and winged uraei, protects the abdomen; a vignette, showing Anubis in the act of mummifying the deceased, flanked by figures of Isis and Nephthys in the attitude of mourning, below; and a vertical register of crude hieratic, giving the name of the deceased, runs down the legs between two columns of underworld deities, the inscription was probably added when the coffin was purchased from the workshop.
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