Inner coffin of Amenemopet. Dimensions: l. 195 cm (76 3/4 in); w. 53 cm (20 7/8 in); h. 62 cm (24 7/16). Dynasty: Dynasty 22, early. Date: ca. 975-909 B.C..Amenemope was a God's Father of Amun, Scribe of the Double Treasury of the Lord of the Two Lands and the House of Amun, and a member of a prominent priestly family at Thebes that had retained the same offices for generations. The two coffins are said to come from Gurna, in Western Thebes.The outer and inner coffins are very similar in shape and decoration. The lids each feature a well-modeled face and the curved beard indicative of the deified dead. The exposed hands hold the mekes, or document case, associated with royalty. The body is slim and the kneecaps protuberant, and each figure wears a bright red cloth, or stola, that encircles the neck and whose ends emerge beneath the folded arms. The stola, mekes, and oversize collar are among the features that scholars have, in recent decades, recognized as distinctive of the era betw
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