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Thanks you for that information and the picture of the coffin..

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a98/kmt_sesh/FIELD%20MUSEUM/ApuneferCase.jpg
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Just another question about these, are the inscriptions correct? I mean are they spelt right and everything or were some glyths skipped to save time?
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My apologies for taking so long to return to this discussion. I appreciate your patience. I've been otherwise engaged most of this week, but again the weekend has arrived to save my sanity. Er, what's left of it to save, at least.

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BURIAL EQUIPMENT & FUNERARY GOODS

In order to control post length I'm including this classification of artifacts separately from the post on mummies, coffins, and sarcophagi. This post covers other artifacts commonly found in Egyptian tombs.

Canopic Equipment

Canopic jars assortment. All dating to Late Period and made of calcite. None of these are inscribed. In the front row, from left, is Duamutef (stomach), Hapi (lungs), Imseti (liver), and Qebehsenuef (intestines).

Canopic jars, matched set. Late Period, for the burial of Hapitnetjer. Limestone and black paint. All four bear the same inscription, an offering formula: "The Osiris, Hapitnetjer, the justified; that he be provided offerings and clothing." All four are solid stone and do not open, meaning they are model canopics (Hapitnetjer's organs were probably wrapped and placed between his legs).

Canopic chest, Middle Kingdom. Dynasty 11 or 12, for the burial of Hemenhotep (see the "Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom" section of my original post for a photo of the matching coffin). Painted inscriptions are badly worn.

Canopic chest, Third Intermediate Period. Brightly painted and richly inscribed. At center is Osiris shown as a djed pillar holding crook and flail, above which the inscription says: "Lord of Abydos, foremost of the Westerners, lord of Djedu [...]."

Canopic box, Ptolemaic Period. Painted wood, showing later practice of one box representing all four Sons of Horus (Duamutef is depicted on the visible side); it's possible there was no other canopic equipment with this particular burial.

Canopic package. Dates to Late Period, with the mask of Duamutef (the intricate linen wrappings contain a mummified stomach). Alternative to the jars; each organ, as part of the body, is wrapped as a miniature mummy to represent the deceased as a whole.

Mummified organs. Late Period, a matched set of human organs, linen, and bronze masks. From left is Duamutef, Imseti, Qebehsenuef, and Hapi (mask missing). These would've been wrapped in more linen and placed between the legs of the deceased, or perhaps in the abdominal cavity.

Shabti & Ushabti

There is actually a distinction in the terminology of these funerary statuettes. From the Middle Kingdom through the New Kingdom they were called shabti or shawabti; by the Late Period they were called ushabti. The meaning of the first two is contested but is probably related to words like "food" or "stick." The meaning of ushabti is "the answerer."

From Second Intermediate Period. Glazed, wood, and clay statuettes with a painted wood shabti coffin. The glazed shabti in the back row holds a whip and is therefore an overseer of the funerary servants. A closeup of the little coffin. A cruder wood coffin next to a crudely carved wood shabti.

From New Kingdom. Note the limestone shabti at center, which contains Spell 6 from the Book of the Dead to bring the figurine to life. To the right is a small, simple shabti made of clay. Lying on the shelf is a fragment of a mold for producing shabtis.

From New Kingdom. Painted-wood shabtis next to a shabti storage box (not a matched set). The shabtis all have depictions of baskets on their backs, for planting the fields of the afterlife. The beautifully painted storage box was made for the "chief doorkeeper of the temple of Amun," named Ib-er-Amun. Compare to another type of storage box from the Oriental Institute, which contains a large number of tiny shabtis.

From Third Intermediate Period. Figurines of glaze, wood, and clay with the names of the tomb owners painted on them. Note the unusual green-glazed ushabti at center.

From the Late Period. All glazed specimens of high quality, although only the smaller one is inscribed. Note the bright, almost apple-green figurine in the background; this is often a marker for the Saite Period (Dynasty 26).

Miniatures

Soul house. First Intermediate Period or early Middle Kingdom. For a poor burial, providing the deceased a place to dwell in the afterlife (whereas a wealthy man's tomb would be his spirit's home). Note the Osiris figure (representing the deceased) sitting in the room on the roof. In the courtyard is an offering table and food items carved from clay.

Model boat. Photo taken for purposes of the coffin in the background but note the wooden boat, dating to early Middle Kingdom. At the stern stands the captain of the crew. Such boats permitted the deceased to travel on the Nile in the afterlife.

Model workers. First Intermediate Period. Such models were common at this time. The wooden figurines shown performing labor would conduct that labor in the afterlife for the deceased. It is not clear what these figurines are doing; they are standing in various poses around a chest. Such models of workers were the precursors to shabtis.

Offering table. A high-quality example in limestone for a man named Iret-Horru, from the Late Period. Inscribed with offering formulae and depictions of the deceased with food.

Miscellaneous

Burial shrouds. Painted linen, dating to the Late Period. Either example would be the inner-most shroud, with the painted portion facing in toward the body and its wrappings of thin strips of linen; after the painted shroud would be any number of plain shrouds. In the left example note the ba-birds perched on the shoulders of the Osiris figure.

Funerary statue. The god Osiris, ithyphallic, coated with pitch; four cobras appear on torso. The goddess Isis in mourning pose, with Anubis behind her. Isis' face bears gold applique. All these statuettes date to the Late Period.

Osiris on plinth. Painted wood and gold applique, from Late Period. The plinth (base) is hollow for concealing magical texts such as the Book of the Dead. A second example, from which the atef crown has been lost; the face is green as a symbol of fertility.

Calcite jars. From Third Intermediate Period. Originally contained kohl and perfumes, the latter of which tomb raiders frequently stole. Off to the left are examples of jewelry.

Mummy collar. So named because it was fitted onto mummies, and was probably an imitation of broad collars worn by the living. Glazed beads strung together.

Amulets. Varying materials and periods, mostly Late Period. As displayed on the mummy of Harwa (see the "Late Period" section of my original post). At top-center is the "Gold Osiris," a rare amulet made of solid gold. The many scarabs represent rebirth and transformation; the djed pillars, strength and endurance. The hammered-gold oval sheet at bottom-right was used to conceal the incision from which the embalmers removed the organs of a mummy (many examples have the Horus Eye stamped on them, although this one does not).
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is this information about Apunefer here:



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If so is there anything new?
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