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Inner coffin of User-het, from Beni Hasan

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An image of Funerary Equipment. Coffin, inner, of User-Het. Inscriptions: 'O Osiris warrior User-het, your mother Nut spreads herself over you in her name of 'Coverer of heaven'. May she cause that you are as a god and no enemy will touch him with any evil thing in her name of ? uniter'. Find Spot: Beni Hasan, Egypt. Wood, width 0.412 m, 1991-1783  B.C. Twelfth Dynasty, Middle Kingdom.

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Funerary Equipment. Coffin, inner, of User-Het. Inscriptions: 'O Osiris warrior User-het, your mother Nut spreads herself over you in her name of 'Coverer of heaven'. May she cause that you are as a god and no enemy will touch him with any evil thing in her name of ? uniter'. Find Spot: Beni Hasan, Egypt. Wood, width 0.412 m, 1991-1783 B.C. Twelfth Dynasty, Middle Kingdom.

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  • Accession Number: E.88.1903
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/20.0
  • Focal length: 33
  • Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
  • Photographer name: Andrew Norman
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 484 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 73.71kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 20/1
  • Captured: 2006:05:16 20:48:52

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afterlife Ancient Egypt antiquity BC belief beni hasan blue cartonnage coffin Egyptian Fitz_ANT funerary equipment Middle Kingdom mummiform mummy mummy coffin painted religion wood wooden

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