coffin
- Museum number
- EA30839
- Description
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Rectangular wooden outer-coffin of Gua; exterior: recessed and painted Hieroglyphic text and eye-panel; interior: painted text and representations of offerings on walls; painted plan of Underworld on floor; part of head-end wall fragmentary.
- Dimensions
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Length: 27.50 centimetres (fragment M4/DD/8)
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Length: 260.50 centimetres
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Weight: 174 grammes (fragment M4/DD/8)
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Width: 5 centimetres (fragment M4/DD/8)
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Width: 92 centimetres
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Depth: 7 centimetres (fragment M4/DD/8)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Publications:
PM IV: p.187;
Harco Willems Chests of Life, 1988, [cat no B2L];
Nicholson and Shaw, Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology (Cambridge 2000), p. 350;
N. Strudwick, Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt, London 2006, pp. 81-3.
Hereikhanova, D. 2022. Not only for a King: nms-headdresses on the Objects of the Twelfth to Eighteenth Dynasties, in Miniaci, G. And W. Grajetzki (eds), The World of Middle Kingdom Egypt III, MKS 12, 173-185. London.
- Location
- On display (G63/dc4)
- Condition
- fair
- Acquisition date
- 1899
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA30839
- Registration number
- 1899,0708.168
