Egyptian coffin fragments with a procession of mourners

An image of Funerary Equipment. Coffin fragments, decorated. This coffin shows a procession of mourners, who consisted of friends, servants and family of the deceased. Unlike the Middle Kingdom eye coffins, where both eyes are shown on a single panel, this example only has one eye on each of the side panels. Production Place: Egypt, Find Spot: Arabah, el- Egypt. Wood, painted, height 39.3 cm, length 111.6 cm, 1580-1550 B.C. Previously attributed to Dynasty 13. Seventeenth Dynasty. Middle Kingdom.

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Funerary Equipment. Coffin fragments, decorated. This coffin shows a procession of mourners, who consisted of friends, servants and family of the deceased. Unlike the Middle Kingdom eye coffins, where both eyes are shown on a single panel, this example only has one eye on each of the side panels. Production Place: Egypt, Find Spot: Arabah, el- Egypt. Wood, painted, height 39.3 cm, length 111.6 cm, 1580-1550 B.C. Previously attributed to Dynasty 13. Seventeenth Dynasty. Middle Kingdom.

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Accession Number: E.283.1900
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 35
Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 371 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 99.85kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2006:05:10 21:45:21

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16th Century afterlife Ancient Egypt antiquity BC belief bending bending over coffin Egyptian female figures Fitz_ANT fragment funerary hair long hair long haired Middle Kingdom mourners mourning mummy mummy coffin painted processions religion woman wood wooden

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