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Burial customs: Late Period

objects found in elite burials

UC 40094
Shabtis (up to four hundred, one shabti for each day and some overseer shabtis).
UC 55210
Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figures as well as other wooden figures of deities (most popular: Isis, Nephthys).
UC 38509
Amulets, arranged on and inside of the mummy wrappings.
UC 29797 Canopic jars.
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Coffin or sarcophagus.
UC 32373 The mummy was often decorated with an elaborate bead net.
UC 32373
Book of the Dead (not very common in the Twenty-sixth Dynasty, and no examples securely dated to the Persian Period).

for burials of lower classes see tombs at Matmar



 

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