Anthropoid Coffin of a Woman ca. 1479–1458 New Kingdom This coffin belonged to an anonymous elderly woman who was interred on the hillside of Sheikh Abd el Qurna in a chamber constructed of rough rock slabs. Both box and lid are crudely hollowed out of two sections of a sycomore log, and the painted decoration, consisting of a blue and yellow wig cover, a broad collar, and uninscribed body bands, is rather Anthropoid Coffin of a Woman. ca. 1479–1458 Wood, gesso, paint. New Kingdom. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, below the Tomb of Senenmut (TT 71), bur
Anthropoid Coffin of a Woman ca. 1479–1458 New Kingdom This coffin belonged to an anonymous elderly woman who was interred on the hillside of Sheikh Abd el Qurna in a chamber constructed of rough rock slabs. Both box and lid are crudely hollowed out of two sections of a sycomore log, and the painted decoration, consisting of a blue and yellow wig cover, a broad collar, and uninscribed body bands, is rather Anthropoid Coffin of a Woman. ca. 1479–1458 Wood, gesso, paint. New Kingdom. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, below the Tomb of Senenmut (TT 71), burial 2, MMA excavations, 1935–36. Dynasty 18
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