Wood anthropoid coffin of Gemhep (box)
Wood anthropoid coffin; waxed in field.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_29.1860a
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_29.1860a; 29.1860a
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Tomb equipment-Coffins and sarcophagi
- Period
- Greco-Roman Period, Ptolemaic
- Title
- Wood anthropoid coffin of Gemhep (box)
- Medium
- Wood
- Dimensions
- Legacy dimension: H. 2.060
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 7652 A, room II
- Bibliography
- Zivie-Coche, Christiane M. Giza Au Premier Millenaire: Autour du temple d'Isis dame des pyramides. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1991, p. 274 (misidentified as 29-7-40), pl. 46.
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1929: Excavated by the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt.