Sousa, Rogério. Burial Assemblages from Bab el-Gasus in the Geographical Society of Lisbon. Monumenta aegyptiaca 14. Turnhout, Brepols, 2017. xiv + 290. ISBN 9782503565750

Abstract: This book is the first publication of the 21st Dynasty coffins in the Lisbon Bab el-Gasus collection which Portugal received in 1893 as the 8th Lot consisting of 88 ushebtis, 5 anthropoid coffins, and 3 mummy covers. The mummies remained in Cairo, but their whereabouts are currently unk...

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Autor principal: Cooney, Kathlyn M.
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Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente 2019
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Sumario:Abstract: This book is the first publication of the 21st Dynasty coffins in the Lisbon Bab el-Gasus collection which Portugal received in 1893 as the 8th Lot consisting of 88 ushebtis, 5 anthropoid coffins, and 3 mummy covers. The mummies remained in Cairo, but their whereabouts are currently unknown. The mummies of the 8th Lot were lost by 1907 when Georges Daressy published his findings on Bab el-Gasus.1 Sousa’s publication provides a full description, commentary, accompanied by black and white and color plates of coffin photographs in addition to useful line drawings, which are essential contributions to researchers in this field...