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Anthropoid Coffin of a Woman
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Anthropoid Coffin of a Woman

Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Reign: Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III
Date: ca. 1479–1458 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Senenmut (TT 71), below, burial 2, MMA 1935–1936
Medium: Wood, gesso, paint
Dimensions: H. 195 cm (76 3/4 in.); W. 54.5 cm (21 7/16 in.); D. 70 cm (27 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1936
Accession Number: 36.3.184
On view in Gallery 116
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  • Provenance

    Excavated by the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1935–1936. Acquired by the Museum in the division of finds, 1936.

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