coffin
- Museum number
- EA43037
- Description
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Part of the limestone coffin of Kemsit.
- Dimensions
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Height: 11 centimetres
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Width: 10.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Inscription subject
royal
- Curator's comments
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Bibliography:
E. Naville and H.R. Hall, 'The XIth Dynasty temple at Dier el-Bahari’ I (London, 1907) pp. 53, 55-6 and pls. XXII-XXIII;
J.J. Clère and J. Vandier, 'Textes de la première periode intermédiare et de la XIème dynastie' (Brussels, 1948) , ler. fasc, pp. 33-4;
B. Porter & R. Moss, 'Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings' I (2nd ed.) (Oxford, 1964), pp. 385-6.
It should be noted that the final fragment described on page 33 of Clère and Vandier, op. cit., is not among the pieces sent to the British Museum.
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See: A. J. Spencer, 'Observations on Some Egyptian Sarcophagi in the British Museum', in W. V. Davies (ed), Studies in Egyptian Antiquities: A Tribute to T. G. H. James (BM Occasional Paper 123, 1999), 13-21.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- fair (incomplete)
- Acquisition date
- 1906
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA43037
- Registration number
- 1907,1015.557
