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coffin, fragment
Coffin fragment with wadjet eye and hieroglyphs painted thereon. The red figure with a criss-cross pattern may be part of a sokar hawk. The eye is the Eye of Re. Probably 25th or 26th Dynasty? This probably shows a shrouded Sokar hawk or less likely Mehet-weret. Mehet-weret is the cow goddess of the primeval flood who protects the Horus hawk. She often appears as a vignette in Chapter 71 of the 'B…
Type of item
- coffin, fragment
Type of item
- coffin, fragment
Providing institution
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- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Identifier
- EC284
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2015-01-27T15:05:35.719Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-07-12T18:15:03.687Z