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Fragment of a clenched hand from a yellow coffin. The hand is made from acacia wood and is decorated with a winged scarab beetle on the upper side of the wrist. Above this is a sun disk flanked by uraeus cobras and a wedjat-eye on either side. A hole drilled into the clenched fist signifies that it once held an attachment, perhaps an ankh-sign (symbolising life), or a djed-pillar (signifying strength and stability). The hand was originally fixed to its coffin by two dowels.
Height: 9.5 cm
Thickness: 4.1 cm
Width: 15.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1943) by Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville, Major
Third Intermediate period
Circa
-1070
-
Circa
-0945
acacia wood Wood
Accession number: E.GA.2861.1943
Primary reference Number: 57283
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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