canopic coffin; human mummy; mummy-wrapping

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Object Type: canopic coffin; human mummy; mummy-wrapping
Museum number: EA25568
Description: Anthropoid gessoed wood canopic-coffin; lid originally pegged to box by 4 tenons and decorated with black lappeted wig with banded diadem, broad collar, winged scarab, wedjat-eyes(part of) on breast, vertical column of text down front, ground ruled with broad chequer-board pattern in red on yellow; box decorated with alternating djed and sa-signs beneath banded edging, winged human-headed bird at head end, djed pillar flanked by imntt-signs at foot; contains embalmed lungs wrapped in fine linen, now stored separately.
Cultures/periods
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Deir el-Bahri (Thebes), royal cache DB320
Materials: wood; gesso; human tissue; linen
Technique
Dimensions: Length: 29.50 centimetres; Width: 10.50 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Location: On display (G63/dc6)
Condition: coffin good (damage around tenons, water damage to top of lid); contents fragmentary
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Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1894
Acquisition notes: Part of lot 20 at sale.
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA25568
Registration number: 1894,1015.3
Conservation: Treatment: 20 Feb 2014; Treatment: 07 Jul 1998; Treatment: 27 Jul 1992

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