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Coffin and corn mummy with Osiris mask, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–200 BC, From Egypt, coffin: wood, paint, L. cm
Coffin and corn mummy with Osiris mask, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–200 BC, From Egypt, coffin: wood, paint, L. cm (19 3/8 in.); W. cm (7 13/16 in.), These falcon-headed coffins do not contain actual mummies but symbolic Osiris mummies stuffed with grain and sand. The falcon head on the coffins and the hieroglyphic text on the painted lid indicate they are associated with the funerary deity Ptah-Sokar-Osiris
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