Card/Transcription No.: 317b-01

317, B. A NEST OF TWO COFFINS (CONTAINING 1
See No. 320 and 317a.

DIMENSIONS:
L. 57.7; Max. W. 22.3; Max. H. 26, cents (at feet). The toes have
been cut off with an adze, they being too high to allow the lid
to be put on the box in which it was stored.

DESCRIPTION: -
OUTER-COFFIN - A miniature coffin of anthropoid form (similar in
type to that of a private burial); tied round with strips of
linen at neck, waist, and ankles, and sealed (for types of seals
employed see Nos. 302 and 282)

The coffin of wood; gesso-gilt; field filled in with black resin.
Headdress of striated (blue and gold) private type; usekh-collar
with hawk-head shoulder pieces; hands free (no emblems); vulture
over abdomen; three longitudinal bands, and four transverse bands
of formulae (see copy attached). The figure of Nephthys on top of
head; the figure of Isis and two ded symbols under feet.
No insignia on forehead.
Contents: 317 B.1