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Lotus flower from a coffin made from a roughly cut piece of sycomore fig. The flower was originally attached to the elbow of an anthropoid coffin. The lotus, more correctly identified as a water lily, symbolised rebirth due to the way that these plants emerge from water, just as the Egyptians believed the first plants emerged from the primeval waters at the time the world was created.
Height: 10.9 cm
Thickness: 1.5 cm
Width: 7.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1943) by Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville, Major
Third Intermediate period
-1070
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-0945
Surface composed of plaster
Accession number: E.GA.5851.1943
Primary reference Number: 59526
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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