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Very few Ptolemaic tombs are known. Fine temple statuary of the period suggests the possibility of tomb sculpture and offering tables. Egyptian elite burials still made use of stone sarcophagi. The traditional Books of the Dead and amulets were also still popular. [10] (p 103)
The Hagia Triada sarcophagus is a stone sarcophagus elaborately painted in fresco; one style of later Ancient Greek sarcophagus in painted pottery is seen in Klazomenian sarcophagi, produced around the Ionian Greek city of Klazomenai, where most examples were found, between 550 BC (Late Archaic) and 470 BC. They are made of coarse clay in ...
Mayet's tomb consisted of a single chamber at the bottom of a vertical shaft. The room contained a rectangular stone sarcophagus; at the time of discovery the chamber was filled with soil to the height of the sarcophagus' lid. [4] The girl was placed in a set of two nested wooden coffins within the uninscribed sarcophagus made of limestone.
Among the new treasures presented: 20 sarcophagi made from limestone and etched with hieroglyphic texts, five wooden coffins, hundreds of amulets and 10,000 blue funerary statues, known as ushabti ...
The Sha-Amun-en-su sarcophagus was composed of box and lid, both carved in polychrome stuccoed wood. It was 1,58 meters high and was made around 750 BC. Throughout its nearly three millennia of history, since it had been sealed with the mummified body of the singer and her votive amulets, the sarcophagus had never been opened.
Granite sarcophagus Undecorated Pieces of pottery [14] Queen's pyramid GIII-b: Granite sarcophagus Jawbone of a young woman, fragments of bones Undecorated Decayed wood, roof slab inscription containing cartouche of Menkaure [14] 5th: Pyramid of Userkaf: Basalt sarcophagus fragments Undecorated [22] 5th Pyramid of Sahure: Basalt sarcophagus ...
The artefacts, unearthed during a year-long excavation, were found beneath an ancient stone enclosure near the Saqqara pyramids and date back to the fifth and sixth dynasties of the Old Kingdom ...
Wooden sarcophagus with mummy inside Painted sarcophagus Multiple ornately decorated stone and wooden coffins were found, some of which had been deposited in tombs carved out of rock formations ...