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Category |
funerary equipment
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Name |
coffin
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Description | coffin, inner, of User-het, inscribed |
Field Collection |
Beni Hasan Egypt |
Dimensions |
width 41.2
cm
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Period | Twelfth Dynasty
Middle Kingdom
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Date | 1991 B.C. — 1783 B.C. |
Inscriptions/Marks | -
inscription
Translation: Words spoken : 'O Osiris warrior User-het, your mother Nut spreads herself over you in her name of 'Coverer of heaven'. May she cause that you are as a god and no enemy will touch him with any evil thing in her name of ? uniter'
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Documentation | -
Garstang, J.
Burial customs of ancient Egypt; as illustrated by tombs of the Middle Kingdom, being a report of excavations made in the necropolis of Beni Hasan during 1902-4
[comments: fig.181] - (1995)
[comments: no.14, p.36] -
Bourriau, J.D.
(1988)
Pharaohs and mortals; Egyptian art in the Middle Kingdom
, Cambridge (Cambs.)
(1988) Cambridge (Cambs.)
[comments: No.72] -
Porter, Bertha
Moss, Rosalind L.B.
Topographical bibliography of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, reliefs and paintings. Vol.4, Lower and Middle Egypt (Delta and Cairo to Asyût)
[comments: p.162] -
Bourriau, J.D.
(1988)
Pharaohs and mortals; Egyptian art in the Middle Kingdom
, Cambridge (Cambs.)
(1988) Cambridge (Cambs.)
[comments: cat. #70]
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Material/s |
wood |
Accession Number | E.88.1903 (Antiquities)
(Reference Number: 50697; Input Date: 2003-03-25 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22) |
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