The Unknown Tutankhamun by Eaton-Krauss Marianne

Author:Eaton-Krauss, Marianne [Eaton-Krauss, Marianne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472575623
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK
Published: 2015-08-26T16:00:00+00:00

The sarcophagus in Tutankhamun’s tomb (Plate XVIII)

A stone sarcophagus may well have been at the very top of a pharaoh’s list of priorities when it came to contemplating his death, outranking even a tomb. More than 75 years ago, William C. Hayes, in his study of the royal sarcophagi of the Eighteenth Dynasty made prior to the Amarna Period, called attention to the fact that all of them (except for the sarcophagus in KV 42, whose ownership is disputed6) are finished, even though the tombs where they were found are not. Early on, Akhenaten ordered a sarcophagus as well as a canopic chest with figures of the solar god as a falcon at the corners, its wings enveloping the contents.7 Both were taken along to Tell el-Amarna, but only the design of the sarcophagus was altered before it and the canopic box were put to use for Akhenaten’s burial in the Royal Wadi there. Alterations are also evident in the decoration and texts on the basin of the sarcophagus in which Howard Carter found the three nested coffins containing Tutankhamun’s mummy, but none at all are discernible on the lid.

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