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Rifeh, the tomb of the two Brothers

(late Twelfth Dynasty; about 1850 BC)

Two objects from an undisturbed tomb of two men, excavated by Petrie; the tomb is fully published: Murray 1910. The tomb contained two sets of coffins (outer box and two inner anthropoid coffin), a canopic box with canopic jars, pottery and wooden models.

(The whole tomb group is now preserved in the Manchester Museum)


 


 

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