An Egyptian Coffin of the Third Intermediate Period residing at the Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte

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Bachelor of Arts
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Adult and Continuing Education
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Anthropology, Archaeology, Egyptology
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2025
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Diego Federico Lope Córdova Rosado
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Now approaching its 70th year residing in the Museo de Historia, Antropología, y Arte of the University of Puerto Rico (MHAA), an Egyptian coffin has served as one of the most impressive artifacts exhibited in the only archaeological museum in the island. Since then, very little research has been done directly on it, with the most recent being a portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) pigment analysis done by undergraduate students in the Departments of Physics and Biology. The goal of this thesis is to elucidate this seldom studied coffin through analyses of its iconography and hieroglyphic text. This will be supplemented by material with analogous decorative styles and text of the same period to better understand the coffin’s significance in craft industry, scribal tradition, and religious belief.

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Wegner, Josef
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2025-05-19
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