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Eternal Egypt: Mummy Cartonnage
This mummy cartonnage is made of rough linen with a layer of plaster in various colors. The features look Roman.
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Eternal Egypt: Sarcophagus of Isis
This sarcophagus of Isis depicts her wearing a heavy wig. Her eyes are narrow while the mouth and the face are full. The ears are marked by white earrings.
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Eternal Egypt: Sarcophagus of a Cat
This sarcophagus of a cat is decorated with scenes showing the cat standing before an offering table. On the sides, Isis is stretching her wings to provide protection.
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Eternal Egypt: Inner Coffin of Yuya
This wooden inner coffin is covered with gilded stucco and inlaid with semiprecious stones and colored glass. It is decorated with figures of divinities.
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Eternal Egypt: Sarcophagus of Senbi
The outside of the sarcophagus of Senbi has multicolored decorations that represent the typical facade of an ancient Egyptian house.
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Eternal Egypt: Inner Coffin of Thuya
This wooden inner coffin of Thuya is gilded on the outside and silvered on the inside and decorated with divinities who protect the deceased.
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Eternal Egypt: Sarcophagus of Khonsu
The sarcophagus is painted with beautiful scenes from the Book of the Dead. The lid is decorated with 12 funerary deities and Khonsu with his family.
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Eternal Egypt: Sarcophagus of Sennedjem
The sarcophagus of Sennedjem is decorated with vignettes from the Book of the Dead and bordered with texts arranged in panels. There are also portrayals of several deities.
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Eternal Egypt: Anthropoid Coffin of Aba
This wooden anthropoid coffin belongs to Aba, son of Ankh-Hor. Aba was the governor of Upper Egypt and the chief of its treasury.
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Eternal Egypt: Sarcophagus of Khufu Ankh
The rectangular granite sarcophagus belonging to a man named Khufu-Ankh was carved to resemble a real house because the Ancient Egyptians considered the sarcophagus a house of the deceased.
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Eternal Egypt: Outer Sarcophagus of Yuya
The outer sarcophagus of Yuya is made of wood, gilt, and bitumen, a type of cement. It is decorated with scenes showing different divinities on all sides.
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Eternal Egypt: Outer Sarcophagus of Thuya
The outer sarcophagus of Thuya is inscribed with a prayer to Nut and chapters from the Book of the Dead in hieroglyphic text. Some deities are represented.
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Eternal Egypt: Sarcophagus of Queen Kawit
The sarcophagus of Queen Kawit, who was the wife of King Montuhotep the Second, was one of the most noteworthy in terms of the low-relief sculpture in the Theban court. The outer faces of this limestone sarcophagus are decorated with...
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Eternal Egypt: Sarcophagus of Ka Em Sekhem
This sarcophagus belongs to a man named Ka-em-Sekhem. It is made from one block of stone and is topped with a lid made from the same block.
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Eternal Egypt: Middle Coffin of Tutankhamun
The middle coffin of the three that were originally placed one inside the other in Tutankhamun's tomb. It is made of compact wood, covered with sheets of gold and is inlaid with semiprecious stones and multicolored glass.
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Eternal Egypt: Anubis Carrying the Moon Disk
Anubis, the black jackal, was the animal that personified the deity who was believed to protect the cemetery, and thus became the patron deity of mummification. On this cartonnage piece, the jackal-headed god comes, carrying the disk of...
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Eternal Egypt: Outer Coffin of Queen Meritamun
This giant outer coffin of Queen Meritamun, wife of Amenhotep the First, is considered to be one of the finest coffins ever made in Egypt.
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Eternal Egypt: Inner Coffin of Queen Meritamun
This inner coffin depicts Queen Meritamun the wife of Amenhotep the first of the 18th Dynasty. in the form of a mummy. The lid is covered with a feather design and hieroglyphics.