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    "localId": "94189",
    "label": "Coffin of Nesykhonsu",
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    "id": "94189",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Coffin of Nesykhonsu",
    "description": "Egyptian coffins told stories and illustrated spells to help the deceased transition safely to the afterlife. Inside Nesykhonsu's coffin there are two jackals, one facing right and the other left, near the top. Here, the jackal represents the powerful deity Anubis, the god of the afterlife and embalming.",
    "date": "c. 976–889 BCE",
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    "language": "en",
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        "Funerary Equipment"
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 70 cm (27 9/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Egypt, Thebes, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE), Dynasties 21–22"
    ],
    "accession": "1914.714.a"
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    "tec": "gessoed and painted sycamore fig",
    "tombstone": "Coffin of Nesykhonsu, c. 976–889 BCE. Egypt, Thebes, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE), Dynasties 21–22. Gessoed and painted sycamore fig ; overall: 70 cm (27 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1914.714.a",
    "collection": "Egypt - Third Intermediate",
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "352.14"
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Two of Nesykhonsu's titles, \"Lady of the House\" and \"Singer of the Choir of Mut the Great,\" are written on the outside of the coffin.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač.<em> Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 325-335, Color p. 60; Mentioned: p. 325-337"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Kozloff, Arielle P. <em>Egypt’s Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and his world.</em> Cleveland : Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1992.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: fig. XI.6, p. 334"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:00:58.644000",
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    "dept": "Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art",
    "coll": "Egypt - Third Intermediate",
    "med": "gessoed and painted sycamore fig",
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