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Carter No.: 317b

Handlist description: Nest of two coffins

Card/Transcription No.: 317b-01


317, B. A NEST OF TWO COFFINS (CONTAINING 1
See No. 320 and 317a.

DIMENSIONS: L. 57.7; Max. W. 22.3; Max. H. 26, cents (at feet). The toes have been cut off with an adze, they being too high to allow the lid to be put on the box in which it was stored.

DESCRIPTION: - OUTER-COFFIN - A miniature coffin of anthropoid form (similar in type to that of a private burial); tied round with strips of linen at neck, waist, and ankles, and sealed (for types of seals employed see Nos. 302 and 282)

The coffin of wood; gesso-gilt; field filled in with black resin. Headdress of striated (blue and gold) private type; usekh-collar with hawk-head shoulder pieces; hands free (no emblems); vulture over abdomen; three longitudinal bands, and four transverse bands of formulae (see copy attached). The figure of Nephthys on top of head; the figure of Isis and two ded symbols under feet. No insignia on forehead. Contents: 317 B.1

Card no. 317b-01 relating to Carter no. 317b
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