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Base and lid of the wooden anthropoid coffin of Irethoreru, holder of family priestly titles concerned with the cult of Min and other gods at Akhmim, covered with stucco and painted polychrome vignettes and texts: wearing wig and collar; figure of Nut, with outstretched wings, protects breast; with vignettes depicting the Weighing of the Heart and the ba revisiting the mummy, on a bier with canopic jars beneath, below; the rest of the surface is covered with painted funerary texts and representations of funerary deities; originally containing the mummy of the deceased (1888,0512.98.b).
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