IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 49037 accession number: E.1.1823 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 8 August 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Sarcophagus lid of Ramesses III object type: Red granite sarcophagus lid of Ramesses III in the shape of a cartouche. In the centre of the lid is the king depicted as the god Osiris in mummy form. On his head he wears the Atef crown composed of ostrich feathers, a sun disk and a pair of ram's horns. Emerging from his forehead is a uraeus, the royal symbol of protection. The king also wears a long plaited beard, another divine symbol associated with the god Osiris, and a long wig with lappets. The king's arms are crossed over his chest and in his hands he holds the crook and flail. On either side are the standing figures of the goddesses Isis (Proper Left - PL) and Nephthys (Proper Right - PR). Much of Isis's figure is missing owing to a large break in the lid which extends from the back part of her head to the base (the break was probably caused by tomb robbers in antiquity). Nephthys stands on the hieroglyphic sign for gold 'nbw'. In between the depiction of Ramesses III and Isis and Nephthys are probably four snakes, two of which have female bodies and heads. These snake-women, who probably represent the goddesses Nekhbet and Wadjet, raise their hands in adoration of the dead king. Hieroglyphic text is inscribed around the lid's outer edge. title: sarcophagus lid NOTES ----- type: history note value: July 1816 – Bernardino Drovetti meets Giovanni Belzoni and gives him the granite sarcophagus lid 12 August 1816 – Belzoni attempts to remove it March or April 1817 – Belzoni successfully removes it c. November 1817 – finds are shipped to Cairo 20 April 1818 – Henry Salt concedes a sarcophagus lid from the Valley of the Kings to Belzoni 27 January 1819 – Another shipment of finds from Luxor to Cairo and then Rosetta, including a sarcophagus lid May 1821 – shipped from Alexandria on the 'Dispatch' (Seti I’s alabaster coffin also on this ship) August 1821 – 'Dispatch' arrived in London Autumn 1821 – all objects moved into the courtyard of the British Museum March 1823 – Ramesses III's sarcophagus lid sent to Cambridge 31 March 1823 – lid arrives in Cambridge The link between Giovanni Belzoni and Cambridge is most probably The Reverend George Adam Browne who was associated with Trinity College. He was also a Freemason, like Belzoni. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Antiquities STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/49037 CATEGORIES ------ category: funerary equipment DATING ------ creation date: 1200 - 1200 creation date earliest: 1200 creation date latest: 1200 culture: New Kingdom culture: 19th Dynasty CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: m value: 0.83 dimension: Height units: m value: 3.05 dimension: Weight units: ton value: 7 dimension: Width units: m value: 1.52 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Egyptian collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Repairs for a Granite Tomb Egyptian Antiquities Treasures of the Fitzwillam Museum Egyptian Art [1995] L'art Egyptien Le portrait royal dans le bas-relief du Nouvel Empire Remarks upon the cover of the Granite Sarcophagus of Rameses III in the Fitzwilliam Museum Topographical bibliography of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, reliefs and paintings. Vol.1, The Theban necropolis. Part 1, Private tombs Was the sarcophagus of Ramesses III begun for Sethos II? 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