Title:
Granite sarcophagus lid of Ramesses III
Maker:
Unknown
Category:
funerary equipment
Name:
sarcophagus lid
Date:
1200 B.C.
Period(s):
New Kingdom; Nineteenth Dynasty
Description:
sarcophagus lid of Ramesses III
Production
Place:
Egypt
Production
Place (legacy):
Egypt, production, country
Find Spot:
Thebes, West Bank
Dimension(s):
depth, 0.83, m
height, 3.05, m
width, 1.52, m
weight, 7, ton, approx.
Acquisition:
given; 1823; Belzoni, G.
Documentation:
Budge, E.A. Wallis. 1893. Catalogue of the Egyptian collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
no. 1
Vassilika, E.. 1995. Egyptian Art [1995].
no.39, p.89
Manniche, L.. 1994. L'art Egyptien. Flammarionp. 233
with plate
Mysliwiec, K.. 1976. Le portrait royal dans le bas-relief du Nouvel Empire.Warsaw: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe
p.158, Pl. CXXX, Fig.288
Porter, Bertha. Moss, Rosalind L.B.. Burney, Ethel W.. Topographical bibliography of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, reliefs and paintings. Vol.1, The Theban necropolis. Part 1, Private tombs.p. 526
2nd edition
Treasures of the Fitzwillam Museum.p. 187
Delange, Elisabeth. 1990. Les sarcophages. Musée du Louvre Éditions
Birch, S.. 1876. Remarks upon the cover of the Granite Sarcophagus of Rameses III in the Fitzwilliam Museum.Cambridge (Cambs.):
Source Title: Proceedings and Communications of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society()
p.158, Pl. CXXX, Fig.288
Dodson, A.. 1986. Was the sarcophagus of Ramesses III begun for Sethos II?.
Source Title: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 72 ()
2nd edition
Cory, Isaac Preston. Egyptian Antiquities.
Source Title: The Cambridge Portfolio 1 () : 402-409
p. 407
Repairs for a Granite Tomb.
Source Title: Stone Industries(May/June-1968) : 26-27
Accession:
Object Number: E.1.1823
(Antiquities)
(record id: 49037; input: 2003-03-25; modified: 2012-01-10)
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Resource:
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