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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 clumsy.
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Title: 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, below the Tomb of Senenmut (TT 71), burial 2, MMA excavations, 1935–36
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
Object Number: 36.3.184a, b
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