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Detail from the Sarcophagus of the Hathor Priestess Henhenet.
This massive sarcophagus is made of several limestone slabs, set on a sandstone base. The lid consist of three parts, and each of them is pierced by two holes through which suspension ropes were slotted for lowering the piece into place. The inscription around the sarcophagus box were first painted green, then outlined in black on two sides; the third side was started but left unfinished.
When found there was still a wooden coffin in the sarcophagus, and in it was Henhenet´s robbed mummy, "lying on the cloth wrappings. Her hands and feet are small and delicately formed, her hair short and straight" wrote Eduard Naville, excavator.
The lid of this sarcophagus was severely destroyed. The lid presently in place belonged originally to the sarcophagus of another royal lady named Kawit.
11th dynasty, from Deir el-Bahri.
07.230.1a, b.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Detail from the Sarcophagus of the Hathor Priestess Henhenet.
This massive sarcophagus is made of several limestone slabs, set on a sandstone base. The lid consist of three parts, and each of them is pierced by two holes through which suspension ropes were slotted for lowering the piece into place. The inscription around the sarcophagus box were first painted green, then outlined in black on two sides; the third side was started but left unfinished.
When found there was still a wooden coffin in the sarcophagus, and in it was Henhenet´s robbed mummy, "lying on the cloth wrappings. Her hands and feet are small and delicately formed, her hair short and straight" wrote Eduard Naville, excavator.
The lid of this sarcophagus was severely destroyed. The lid presently in place belonged originally to the sarcophagus of another royal lady named Kawit.
11th dynasty, from Deir el-Bahri.
07.230.1a, b.
Metropolitan Museum of Art