Chapter Seven. The Coffin

Elizabeth Simpson

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Chapter Seven. The Coffin

In: The Gordion Wooden Objects, Volume 1 The Furniture from Tumulus MM (2-vol. set)

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Pages:: 119–125

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789047442868_009

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The remains of the interred king were found lying on a mass of degraded textiles and wood, which Young interpreted as a four-poster bed. The king's coffin had been made from a huge cedar log, hollowed out, with horizontal ledges extending at both ends. The "headboard" was actually the ledge at the east end, which had broken off the coffin body and fallen out onto the floor. The east section of the coffin sloped down from the ledge, tapering to a thin edge near the break at the bottom. Young's deteriorated "bed planks" were actually fragments of the log coffin, which had split apart along the grain and fallen in lengths on the floor. As the Tumulus MM coffin was not a bed, it was not at all comparable to the bed from Tumulus P, although the two pieces were discussed together in the commentary section of Gordion I.

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The Gordion Wooden Objects, Volume 1 The Furniture from Tumulus MM (2-vol. set)

Series: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume: 32

E-Book ISBN:: 9789047442868

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2010

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- Ancient Near East and Egypt
  - History
  - Archaeology, Art & Architecture

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