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Thanos5150 Wrote:
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> I think you may be mistaken. I find no information
> the coffin itself was RCD, but rather only the
> skeleton found inside (?) which dated to less than
> 2,000yrs ago (other sources, the 2nd century AD).
Nigel Strudwick, Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt (British Museum Press, 2006), p. 264:
M.
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> I think you may be mistaken. I find no information
> the coffin itself was RCD, but rather only the
> skeleton found inside (?) which dated to less than
> 2,000yrs ago (other sources, the 2nd century AD).
Nigel Strudwick, Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt (British Museum Press, 2006), p. 264:
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The coffin is constructed from several different kinds of wood. The larger components are all of juniper and fir, softwoods which were not native to Egypt and must therefore have been imported. Local timbers (sycomore [sic] fig and tamarisk) were only used to make some of the dowels and tenons joining the planks. One piece of wood has been radiocarbon dated to 1212-846 BC — somewhat earlier than the date for the reburial suggested by the stylistic and inscriptional evidence. This discrepancy may be accounted for if the craftsmen who made the coffin recycled old timber, a regular practice in ancient Egypt.
M.
