EGYPTIAN
ARCHAEOLOGY
Red glass m-sign with surviving gold foil from the left side of the box, band three. Photograph: Otto J Schaden
Yellow inlays of paste/pigment in reed signs with J from the phrase ‘...revered, may I see Re [...]’ on the top cross band on the left side of the box. Traces of gold leaf can be seen in front of and behind both reeds, under the chin of the seated woman sign and in the lower right corner before the break. Photograph: Otto J Schaden
Signs filled with red paste or paint: a seated man, ᝉmntt and the ‘foreign land’ sign, above blue glass rods in situ. Photograph: Otto J Schaden
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Egypt in England
Blue glass nb-sign with remains of a red glass mn-sign below it. Photograph: Mary Ann Marazzi
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for embalming material in KV63. Iny’s name and her title of Royal Nurse, together with the decoration of the coffin with glass inlays and gold foil, all show that the owner was a very important individual, though we may never know which royal child or children were in her care, as she is unattested elsewhere. The materials used to decorate her wooden coffin provide a brief glimpse into the extended use of glass inlays towards the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Although Iny’s surviving coffin decoration indicates a smaller scale of embellishment than that of the sumptuous glass and faience inlays found on two of the coffins in the tomb of the Vizier Aper-el at Saqqara, the fact that expensive glass and gold foil were used to decorate her coffin indicates her high status in Egyptian society.
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q Otto J Schaden is the Director of the Amenmesse Project, investigating KV10 and KV63. Earl L Ertman is a Professor Emeritus, University of Akron, and Associate Director of the KV10 and KV63 mission. They would like to thank artist Elaine Taylor, for preparing the illustrations for this article. 41
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