The coffin assemblage of Meretites (NAMA 2007.12.1–7) was purchased by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in 2007 for the reinstallation of the museum’s Egyptian collection in 2010. While the museum initially proposed that the coffins were from Hermopolis, two recent articles argue that the coffin set was instead from Herakleopolis Magna. This paper analyzes Meretites assemblage texts and iconography with the intent of securely placing the coffins within the corpus of Herakleopolis Magna burials at Abusir el-Melek during the 3rd and 4th centuries BCE.
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