Child’s coffin

By Jacqueline Engel

Child’s coffin found at Deir el Medina

Wood formerly partially stuccoed, gilded and encrusted with faience and fine stones ; bitumen or resin or pitch.

Length: 105 cm ; width : 33 cm;

height: 38 cm (at face level)

Deir el-Medina, clearing at mid-slope of the western cemetery.

18th dynasty, reigns of Thoutmosis IV and/or Amenhotep III

Egyptian Museum Caïro

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