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Late Ptolemaic Period
Not on view
Returned to Egypt in 2019. Now on display at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Cairo.
Press release: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Returns Coffin to Egypt"
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Title: Lid and base of the coffin of the priest of Heryshef, Nedjemankh
Period: Late Ptolemaic Period
Date: 150–50 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt; Possibly from Middle Egypt, Abusir el-Meleq, believed to have been looted in 2011
Medium: Cartonnage (linen, glue, and gesso), gesso, paint, gold, silver, resin, glass, wood, leaded bronze
Dimensions: Lid: H. 181 × W. 53 × D. 28 cm (71 1/4 × 20 7/8 × 11 in.); Base: H. 180 × W. 54 × D. 12 cm (70 7/8 × 21 1/4 × 4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Purchase, 2017 Benefit Fund; Lila Acheson Wallace Gift; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; Leona Sobel Education and The Camille M. Lownds Funds; and 2016 Benefit Fund, 2017
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