Basket and toilet articles, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1479–1458 , From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna


Basket and toilet articles, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1479–1458 , From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, below the Tomb of Senenmut (TT 71), burial 2, 1935–36, Halfa grass and linen cord; travertine (Egyptian alabaster); linen, linen cord, ebony; boxwood and cypress, basket with lid: H. 17 x Diam. 28 cm (6 11/16 x 11 in.), The objects shown here were discovered with the burial of an unnamed woman who lived at about the same time as Hatnefer. The basket contains a mass of fine braids of dark brown human hair and three bundles of loose, wavy locks


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