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A PAINTED WOODEN PTOLEMAIC PERIOD COFFIN OF IR.T-WY –RW FROM SHARUNA IN THE GRAND EGYPTIAN MUSEUM (GEM NO 32598)

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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This article is focused on the painted wooden anthropoid coffin excavated at Kom el-Ahmar/Sharuna in 1976 and preserved in the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo (GEM no 32598). According to its inscriptions, it contains the mummy of ir.t-wy-rw. The coffin presumably was made in the Ptolemaic period. The present study focuses on the decoration of this object (inscriptions and iconography) with a view to identifying the style of Sharuna coffins, and, the peculiarities analysis of the signs that combine hieroglyphic, cursive and hieratic writings.

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10.21608/shedet.2022.262493

Keywords

Kom el-Ahmar/Sharuna, Ptolemaic period, Wooden Coffin, Grand Egyptian Museum, ir.t-wy-rw

Authors

First Name

Marwa

Last Name

Ewais

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

Egyptology, Faculty of Archaeology, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt

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maa24@fayoum.edu.eg

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0000-0002-8949-2181

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10

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10

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40322

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2023-01-01

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2022-09-30

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2023-01-01

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1

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22

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2356-8704

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2536-9954

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SHEDET_Volume 10_Issue 10_Pages 1-22.pdf

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A PAINTED WOODEN PTOLEMAIC PERIOD COFFIN OF IR.T-WY –RW FROM SHARUNA IN THE GRAND EGYPTIAN MUSEUM (GEM NO 32598)

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25 Dec 2024