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The coffin of Khnum-nakht

General Information

Body coffin of Khnum-Nakht. Wooden coffin held the body of the Negroid brother. The eyes of limestone and obsidian are inserted in a bronze rim.

Storing Place	Manchester Museum - Manchester - United Kingdom
Material	Wood
Type	Coffin
Type of Script	Hieroglyphic
Discovery Place	Rifeh - Assiut - Egypt
Found By	Flinders Petrie
Historical Period	The Twelfth dynasty – The Middle Kingdom

General Comments

The burial chamber of the two individuals was found in a small chamber placed within the courtyard of a bigger tomb, perhaps once belonging to a governor buried at Rifeh. The tomb chamber contained a set of two coffins, one outer wooden box coffin and one inner anthropoid coffin for each of the tomb owners. The mummies of the tomb owners were already heavily decades when found and basically just preserved as skeletons. They had the title son of a governor. Khnum-nakht was also great wab priest of Khnum. The tomb group is one of the best preserved and best known burials of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom.

Inscriptions on the Monument

The text

Transliteration

( If the Hieroglyphic,Demotic or Hieratic text is not appearing clear, install this file )

Htp di nsw Xnm Asir nb SAs Htp di=f prt-xrw t Hnqt kA Apd Ss mnxt snTr mrHt xt nb nfrt wabt anxt nTr im n kA n ??? Xnmw-nxt

Translation

An offering which the king gives to Khnum Osiris lord of Shas-hetep, so that he may give a voice offering of bread and beer, ox and fowl, alabaster , linen , incense ,unguent and everything good and pure on which a god lives for the Ka of the ?? Khnum-Nakht.

Scientific Publishing

R. David, The Two Brothers, Death and Afterlife in Middle Kingdom Egypt, (Bolton 2007 )