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Coffin Kalamazoo, Valley Museum PM 32.316

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Coffin Kalamazoo, Valley Museum PM 32.316
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details	Qubbet el-Hawa
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Cecil, Lady William Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	donation
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1932 and
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Todd, Albert May Certainty: high

Object

Object Type

coffin

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	two-sided
Script, Primary	Hieratic
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian

 

Text Content

Modern Title	Book of the Dead spell 1
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	religious-literary | polytheistic Egyptian | Book of the Dead
Summary of Content	Coffin with inscription on the inside and outside, containing Book of the Dead spell 1.
Location of Composition	unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty)					;

 

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Literature

• Elias, Jonathan, Coffin Inscription in Egypt after the New Kingdom. A Study of Text Production and Use in Elite Mortuary Preparation (1993). (527-530 (III - 4))
• Elias, Jonathan, Regional Indicia on a Saite Coffin from Qubbet El-Hawa (1996). (105-122)

 

DatasetID	309954
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	135280
Author	Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309954 (= Coffin Kalamazoo, Valley Museum PM 32.316), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.