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Base and lid of the anthropoid wooden coffin of Besenmut, Priest of Montu at Thebes, with polychrome painted face, wig and collar, the rest of the exterior is covered with both vertical and horizontal registers of black painted hieroglyphs on a buff ground, in imitation of a papyrus text, giving Chapter CLIV of the Book of the Dead, the solitary vignette shows the mummy of the deceased on a bier receiving life and warmth from the rays of the solar disc.
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