This coffin belongs to a woman whose name is lost to us. She probably lived in the 21st Dynasty (roughly 1075-950 BCE), and was burried at the site of Mo’alla. This coffin was purchased Adolph Sutro on his trip to Egypt, probably in 1884. This was one of four sets of coffins that he purchased during his trip, and one of two sets to survive to this day. The other is the three-coffin set of Nespaperennub. Both sets of coffins survived the 1906 quake and were displayed at the Sutro Baths in San Francisco for over half a century. They were donated to San Francisco State’s Museum Studies program mere months before the Baths were razed by fire in 1966. For more information, see our webpage, here: https://3dcoffins.berkeley.edu/coffins/sfsu-global-museum-10411042 The model and the images used to build it are courtesy of and Copyright 2019 San Francisco State University Studies Program and the Global Museum, where the Anonymous Woman and her Yellow Coffin remain today.
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