Coffin: E.GA.501.1947

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Current Location: In storage

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Coffin

Description

Wooden face, carved from sidr, of a New Kingdom coffin containing recesses for inlaid eyes and eyebrows. The inlays are lost, but impressions of them survive in the remains of the adhesive, which is made of Egyptian blue and gum.

Measurements and weight

Height: 0.151 m
Thickness: 0.077 m
Width: 0.15 m

Find spot

Egypt

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1947) by Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville, Major

Dating

New Kingdom
-1550 - -1070

References and bibliographic entries

Death on the Nile: Uncovering the Afterlife of Ancient Egypt page(s): 116-117

Related exhibitions

Death on the Nile: Uncovering the Afterlife of Ancient Egypt

Identification numbers

Accession number: E.GA.501.1947
Primary reference Number: 61692
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 13 November 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Antiquities

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