More Wooden Sarcophagi Found at Dashur
This time the find involves four more anthropomorphic sarcophagi made of wood, together with some related grave goods. These goods include three wooden canopic jars, and four ushabti boxes containing 38 wooden ushabti figures. Unfotunately the sarcophagi are empty, having been robbed in antiquity.
“The tomb also contained three wooden Canopic jars, in which ancient Egyptians tried to preserve internal organs, and four boxes for ushabti figures, the miniature statues of servants to serve the dead person in the afterlife, the statement said.
The sarcophaguses did not contain mummies because the tomb was robbed in ancient times but have the original black and yellow paintwork showing ancient Egyptian gods, it said.
One of the ushabti boxes is in excellent condition and was unopened but most of the 38 wooden figurines inside were broken. It belonged to a man by the name of Tut Bashu, who was the original owner of one of the coffins.
Another sarcophagus belonged to someone called Ari Saraa. The statement gave no further details of the dead people but said the burials dated from the Ramesside period or the Late Dynastic Period — anywhere between about 1300 and 330 BC.”
*Update: The story has now been posted on the website of Zahi Hawass and it appears the location was incorrectly reported as being Saqqara when in fact they were disccovered inside an unidentified burial shaft located in the northern area of the Ramesside tomb of Ta in the Dahshur Necropolis.
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