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Carter No.: 320

Handlist description: Miniature coffin

Card/Transcription No.: 320-1


320 A MINIATURE COFFIN
See No. 317, A & B.

POSITION: N.E. corner of chamber; placed on top of shawabti kiosks, between Nos. 317 and 322; probably turned over and displaced by the intruders.

DIMENSIONS: L. 78; Max. W. 28.5; Max. H. 33.5 (at feet); cents.

DESCRIPTION: (320) outermost coffin - a wooden coffin of anthropoid form (similar in type to that of an Eighteenth dynasty private burial); tied round with strips of linen at the neck and ankles, and sealed - for type of seals employed see Nos. 275, 279. Of wood; gesso-gilt; covered between details and texts with black resin Joint between lid and coffin sealed with black resin, which covered a great deal of the formulae of the texts. Has khat-headdress; usekh-collar, sections of which are coloured yellow, green, yellow, and blue upon the gilding; hands free (no emblems), spread-vulture over abdomen; longitudinal and four transverse bands of formulae (see copy attached), and ideograms of the gods thereof; Nephthys on top of head; Isis under feet. No royal insignia.

Card no. 320-1 relating to Carter no. 320
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