IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 57283 accession number: E.GA.2861.1943 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 12 March 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. title: coffin fragment 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/57283 CATEGORIES ------ category: funerary equipment DATING ------ creation date: 1070 - 945 creation date earliest: 1070 creation date latest: 945 culture: Third Intermediate period DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 9.5 dimension: Thickness units: cm value: 4.1 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15.9 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Death on the Nile: Uncovering the Afterlife of Ancient Egypt title: Pop-Up Museum in Wisbech CITATIONS -------- Death on the Nile: Uncovering the Afterlife of Ancient Egypt --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: 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