Image: Menkaura-AnthropoidCoffinFragment-Drawing1840
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Description: Drawing of the anthropoid coffin fragment inscribed with the name of the pharaoh Menkaura. A "replacemnt" coffin, stylistically dated to the Saite period, some two millenia after the king's death. Original drawing made by excavator Richard Vyse and published in 1840.
Title: Menkaura-AnthropoidCoffinFragment-Drawing1840
Credit: "Operations carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837".
Author: Keith Schengili-Roberts (scan of original illustration)
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