Limestone Coffin Model
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1992
name: label: Collector
content: Joseph Hirshhorn
label: Donor Name
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
label: Site Name
content: Deir El-Medina
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG. MODEL OF A COFFIN. LIMESTONE. TWO PARTS: COFFIN BASE AND LID. LID:PAINTED, DEPICTING A FULL LENGTH FIGURE; BASE: SIDES PAINTED AND INCISED, BOTTOM IS PLAIN. AN ADHESIVE LABEL BEARING THE NUMBER S.217.74 WAS REMOVED FROM THIS ARTIFACT BY ANTHROPOLOGY CONSERVATION LAB 4-2002.
label: Notes
content: SEE SI ARCHIVES
label: Notes
content: Associated with shabti, catalog number 553172.
label: Notes
content: From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Shabti coffin model, 1292-1190 BC. Shabti (A552172) and its coffin (A553173) belonged to Ameneminet, a worker with the title "the one who hears the call," from the Deir el-Medina artisan's village near the Valley of the Kings.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Jan 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Egyptian, New Kingdom Period, Dynasty XIX
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: A553173-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Coffin
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 36 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 14 cm
label: Depth - At Top
content: 7 cm
label: Depth - At Bottom
content: 9 cm