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coffin
Object Type
coffin
Museum number
EA46651
Description
Part of a wooden coffin; paint on plaster; three columns of blue Hieroglyphic text flanked by two squatting figures.
Cultures/periods
11th Dynasty
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Dr David George Hogarth
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Asyut (town)
, Tomb 10a
Materials
wood
plaster
Technique
painted
plastered
Dimensions
Height:
21.20 centimetres
Width:
42.90 centimetres
Depth:
2.70 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Zitman 2010 / The necropolis of Assiut: a case study of local Egyptian funerary culture from the Old Kingdom to the end of the Middle Kingdom
(II, 131, 215)
Location
Not on display
Condition
fair (incomplete)
Acquisition date
1907
Department
Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number
EA46651
Registration number
1907,0511.572