Handle for rope for lowering coffin

Third Intermediate Period

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 130

Discovered in the pit of MMA 60, this is one of three wooden rods with rounded ends, slightly larger at the ends than in the middle. This stick and 25.3.178 seem to have made a pair; 25.3.176 is slightly shorter. These rods may have been used as handles on ropes by the ancient undertakers to lower the inner coffins into the outer coffins, or for lowering an entire set of coffins into place.

Handle for rope for lowering coffin, Pine wood

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Handle for rope for lowering coffin, Pine wood
Handle for rope for lowering coffin, Pine wood
Handle for rope for lowering coffin, Pine wood

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