Portion of an ancient coffin - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 26808 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 999.99 FAMILY UNKNOWN | Entry Book Number | 94A.1895 | |
| Artefact Name | Portion of an ancient coffin | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Egypt | TDWG Region | Egypt | ||
| Parts Held | Portion of an ancient coffin | Geography Description | Upper Egypt, Akhmin | ||
| Uses | Portion of an ancient coffinUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Archaeological | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Myers WJ | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Found at Akhmin Upper Egypt, 2nd century BC. I am sending a small piece of wood given me by the Keeper of the Museum at Cairo. It is a piece of an ancient coffin of the 2nd cent. BC. It looks like cedar and what is said to have been import, ed into Egypt from Syria at a remote date. | ||||