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Princess Nany

This is princess Nany of the twenty-first dynasty. When she died, she was nearly seventy and quite fat. Apparently, her face was ripped away for the gold by her own burial party, and her coffin was left in disarray in the corridor of the tomb in which her burial intruded. She has not received much attention in the literature as her burial was in a tomb that belonged to a much more important (and to egyptologists, interesting) person, Queen Merytamun, wife of Amenhetep II in the 18th dynasty.

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Uploaded on June 4, 2009
Taken on May 24, 2009