coffin
- Museum number
- EA6690
- Description
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Lid and base of the anthropoid middle coffin of Takhebkhenem, Lady of the House, daughter of Pedikhons, made of wood, polychrome painted face, wig and collar, vertical register of hieroglyphs, in blue, containing a prayer to Osiris, down front of the body, the rest of the surface is unelaborated, although the wood appears to have been stained.
- Dimensions
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Height: 30 centimetres (base)
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Height: 38 centimetres (lid)
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Length: 195 centimetres (base)
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Length: 195 centimetres (lid)
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Weight: 41.80 kilograms (base)
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Depth: 66 centimetres (base)
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Depth: 66 centimetres (lid)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- In set with .6690.A
In set with .6691
Mummy is 6692.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1835
- Acquisition notes
- The set of coffins and mummy (EA 6690-6692) were purchased for 'sixty dollars' by Christie from 'Yanni the Greek' (Giovanni d'Athanasi) at Alexandria in 1832, as recorded in Christie's diary - where the provenance of the coffins is given as Thebes (Correspondence 1826-1860, vol. 3 [CA-CL], 1033).
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA6690
- Registration number
- .6690.B
