The Coffin of Heqata

[ikhet_sekhmet]

Much of interest in this weighty tome. I'll blog stuff as I go along, but first, I must share this remark with you:

"Heqata must have experienced a feeling of relief when Lady William Cecil had his mummy taken out of his coffin. In the four thousand years preceding that moment, he had had to satisfy himself with the sight of the coffin's interior decoration, and this can hardly have been a pleasant experience. The drawings are, to put it mildly, not very aesthetic, and if Heqata could read, the many errors in the writing of the texts must have driven him to despair."

Willems, Harco. The Coffin of Heqata (Cairo JdE 36418) (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 70). Peeters Publishers and Department of Oriental Studies, Leuven, Belgium, 1996.

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[alryssa.livejournal.com]

Laughing hard right now!