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Two figures of erect cobras on top of a small shrine-shaped box that once held two votive snakes wrapped in cloth. The sides of the box are painted light brown with black edges framing hieroglyphic signs painted in black. The two mummified snakes are no longer in the box and are unlocated (University cat. no. 1138) as is the base of the coffin.
John Garstang's team excavated about 250 tombs at "Beni Hasan South" near the mouth of the gorge of the Speos Artemidos in 1904, but this work is less well recorded than that of the earlier shaft tombs he excavated at Beni Hasan.
Specifications
- Accession number
- 55.82.110
- Collection type
- Religion
- Culture
- Late Period
- Place made
- Africa: Northern Africa: Egypt: Beni Hasan: Speos Artemidos
- Date made
- 747 BC - 332 BC
- Collector
- Beni Hasan Excavation Committee
- Place collected
- Africa: Northern Africa: Egypt: Beni Hasan
- Date collected
- 1904
- Materials
- Paint; Wood; Gesso
- Measurements
- Overall: 150 mm x 90 mm x 169 mm
- Credit line
- Gift of the University of Liverpool, 2000
- Legal status
- Permanent collection
- Provenance
- Location
- On display: World Museum, Level 3, Ancient Egypt Gallery
- Publications
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