canopic coffin;
human mummy;
mummy-wrapping
- Museum number
- EA25568
- Description
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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.
- Dimensions
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Length: 29.50 centimetres
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Width: 10.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- On display (G63/dc6)
- Condition
- coffin good (damage around tenons, water damage to top of lid); contents fragmentary
- Acquisition date
- 1894
- Acquisition notes
- Part of lot 20 at sale.
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA25568
- Registration number
- 1894,1015.3
