Coffin of Isetweret, Ptolemaic Period, 400–250 , From Egypt, Northern Upper Egypt, Akhmim (Khemmis, Panopolis), Egyptian

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Coffin of Isetweret, Ptolemaic Period, 400–250 , From Egypt, Northern Upper Egypt, Akhmim (Khemmis, Panopolis), Egyptian Antiquities Service/Maspero excavations 1885–86, Painted and gessoed wood, L. 181 × W. × D. 38 cm (71 1/4 × 19 1/8 × 14 15/16 in.), The coffin’s inscription tells us that its owner was the woman Isetweret and that her father, a priest, was called Wenpasherymin and her mother Iretenhapiaat. Isetweret lived in Akhmim, an important religious and cultural center in the Ptolemaic Period that was closely connected to the fertility god Min

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