Image: KV55 sarcophagus (Cairo Museum)
Description: This is perhaps the most mysterious royal sarcophagus located in the Egyptian Museum of Cairo. Egyptologists today generally agree that it belongs to either pharaoh Akhenaten or Smenkhkare based on the numerous Amarna era objects found in Tomb KV55 of the Valley of the Kings. However, considering the amount of damnatio memoriae inflicted against the sarcophagus, where all its royal cartouches were erased, it might well have belonged to Akhenaten himself whose memory was proscribed with the restoration of the cult of Amun after his reign. The sarcophagus was found in January 1907 in Tomb KV55 by Theodore Davis and Edward R. Ayrton.
Title: KV55 sarcophagus (Cairo Museum)
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Author: Hans Ollermann
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