Publishing and studying the cover of the inner coffin of Amun, No. CG 6024, in the Mummification Museum, Luxor

Document Type : Academic scientific reviews of any other material related to the main domains of this Journal.

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The Higher Institute for Ancient Near East Civilizations. Zagazig University

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The article aims to study the inner coffin lid, which bears an entry number (JE 29683), and was found in the mass tomb of the priests of Amun near the Deir el-Bahari temple on the western river bank in Thebes, khnown as "Bab el- Gasus tomb" or " the second cache" in 1891, in the western corridor . The coffin lid exists now in the Mummification musum in Luxor city since year 2006. the inner coffin lid appears in an anthropoid coffin, and belongs to the type khnown as " the yellow coffins" and dates back to the late period of the 21st dynasty. It the had the name and the surname of the priest "Padi Amon", and was raped by his wife, "Ta Aa Amun", and the study proved that she may be the daughter of his uncle the priest "Badi Khonsu III". And the identity of the owner of the cover was determined, because we have more than eight priests bearing the name of the owner of the coffin lid, and owned another Coffin with the number A. 140 .

. the inner coffin lid appears in an anthropoid coffin, and belongs to the type khnown as " the yellow coffins" and dates back to the late period of the 21st dynasty. It the had the name and the surname of the priest "Padi Amon", and was raped by his wife, "Ta Aa Amun"

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