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Raiders of KV 46
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Mystery of the Missing Mummy Bands
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35 Revisited
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discovery from Daressy's Fouilles de la Vallee des Rois.
Unknown Man E
Was he really
buried alive?
The
Tomb of Maihirpre
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Audience With Amenophis II Journey
once more with Pierre Loti as he explores the shadowy chambers of KV 35 in the
early 1900's.

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Background Image: Wall scene from the tomb of Ramesses II (KV 7.) From Karl
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The Coffins of Masaharta
Masaharta's
mummy was discovered in his original coffins. The outer coffin is almost intact
and only one of its gilded hands (the right) is missing. The colored photo of the portrait mask below (from CESRAS) shows a small hole at the chin where a beard may once have been attached. Unlike the relatively intact outer coffin, the
inner coffin and coffin board had sustained more serious damage. The
portrait masks and both sets of hands had been stolen from them, and, based on this theft, Reeves concludes that DB320 was not Masaharta's original place of burial. An identical
pattern of damage may be seen on the coffins of Maatkare-Mutemhet, Neskhons and Isiemkheb-D. Typically, when inner coffin damage like this is observed, the perpetrators are most likely to have been members of the burial team, who had concealed their pilfering of valuable inner coffin elements within a pristine looking outer coffin. The outer coffin's missing right hand might not necessarily have been stolen but could have become accidentally detached due to rough handling when the coffins and mummy of Masaharta had been moved from their original burial place into DB 320. The gilded hands of 21'st Dynasty "Yellow" coffins such as Masaharta's were not carved in relief on the coffin lid, but were made separately and attached to it using a technique that was employed until the 22'nd Dynasty. Rogerio Sousa suggests that this technique may have been unreliable. He observes that even non-gilded hands (which would have held no interest for thieves) are missing from many coffins of this period, and concludes that they were designed in a way that made them prone to breakage. (Source Bibliography: CCR, p, 66ff., pls, XXXVI, XXXVII, XXXVIII; DRN, p. 213, no. 20, p. 256; FP, pp. 200-203; GCSS, 61, n. 331; MiAE, p. 329-330.) Source Abbreviation Key.
CESRAS close up of the gilded portrait mask on the outer
coffin of Masaharta.

Black and white photo of Masaharta's outer (left) and inner (right) coffin
lids
from Georges Daressy's Cercueils des cachettes royales (Cairo, 1909.)
Click to enlarge.

The decorations on the basin of Masaharta's outer coffin. From Georges Daressy's
Cercueils des cachettes royales (Cairo, 1909.)
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The decorations on the basin of Masaharta's inner coffin. From Georges Daressy's
Cercueils des cachettes royales (Cairo, 1909.)
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Masaharta's coffin board. From Georges Daressy's
Cercueils des cachettes royales (Cairo, 1909.)
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CESRAS color detail showing recumbent Anubis motif on Masaharta's
outer coffin.
The Center for Egyptological Studies of the Russian Academy
of Sciences (CESRAS) maintains an extensive collection of
online images available for public use on Flickr and has posted large size
scans of many of the photographic plates from George Daressy's historically
important 1909 work, Cercueils des cachettes royales, which are featured on this page. The above images of the
coffins of Masaharta provide a valuable photographic record of these beautiful
objects, currently on display at the Luxor Museum of Mummification. More close up images of the decorations on these coffins may be seen by going to the CESRAS
Masaharta photostream.
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