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"Alabaster canopic box which held the four vessels.", Egypt

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Egypt

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.

225 KING TUTANKHAMUN'S TREASURES[,] (1353-1344 B.C.); Museum number 984. Alabaster canopic box which[,] held the four vessels. In each vessel was a miniature[,] gold coffin containing the king's viscera.; Copyright: Eastern Publishing Company P.O.B. 261. Cairo; E P Co [logo]. Published by Eastern Publishing Company P.O.B. 261. Cairo.

Collection
Stephen Grant postcards
Archival grouping
Stephen Grant postcards / Pulled for Conservation
Recorded places
Egypt
Cataloged creator or photographer
Eastern Publishing Company (Cairo, Egypt)
Recorded subjects
Rites and ceremonies -- Africa
Format and extent
1 Postcard (Box, color, 4 x 6 in)
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Sources & collection details

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art — original record ↗

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Catalog reference: EEPA.2001-001, Item EEPA 2001-001-6996

Collection: Stephen Grant postcards

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