Inner coffin of User-het, from Beni Hasan

An image of Funerary Equipment. Coffin, inner, of User-Het. Inscriptions: 'O Osiris warrior User-het, your mother Nut spreads herself over you in her name of 'Coverer of heaven'. May she cause that you are as a god and no enemy will touch him with any evil thing in her name of ? uniter'. Find Spot: Beni Hasan, Egypt. Wood, width 0.412 m, 1991-1783 B.C. Twelfth Dynasty, Middle Kingdom.

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Funerary Equipment. Coffin, inner, of User-Het. Inscriptions: 'O Osiris warrior User-het, your mother Nut spreads herself over you in her name of 'Coverer of heaven'. May she cause that you are as a god and no enemy will touch him with any evil thing in her name of ? uniter'. Find Spot: Beni Hasan, Egypt. Wood, width 0.412 m, 1991-1783 B.C. Twelfth Dynasty, Middle Kingdom.

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Accession Number: E.88.1903
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
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Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
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Image width: 484 pixels
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ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 20/1
Captured: 2006:05:16 20:48:52

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