This discussion will be centered on one ubiquitous and rather
simple Egyptian object type - the wooden container for the human
corpse. We will focus on the entire 'lifespan' of the coffin - how
they were created, who bought them, how they were used in funerary
rituals, where they were placed in a given tomb, and how they might
have been used again for another dead person. Using evidence from
Deir el Medina, we will move through time from the initial
agreement between the craftsman and the seller, to the construction
of the object by a carpenter, to the plastering and painting of the
coffin by a draftsman, to the sale of the object, to its ritual use
in funerary activities, to its deposit in a burial chamber, and,
briefly, to its possible reuse.
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