Coffins

Coffins and Larnakes (larnax) are used for the burial of a corpse rather than cremated ashes.  They are made from metal or copper and are larger than funerary urns.   

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Object	U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
	(none)	(none)	1930,1213.308	(none)	(none)
	(none)	(none)	1928,1010.666	(none)	(none)
	18447W	(none)	1933,1013.167	(none)	Group: [A] Iron dagger hilt. [B] Bronze situla. [C] Iron bangle. [D] Iron bangle, end broken. [E-F] 2 copper bracelet. [G] Iron bracelet. [H-J] 3 iron [rings] and [K-M] 3 copper rings. [N-S] 6 copper [arrowheads] and [drawing 1:1] [T-U] 2 iron arrowheads thus: [reference to drawing]. [drawing 1:1] [V] Beads: a number of yellow paste double conoids, lapis tubes and balls, carnelian tubes and balls, beads of green stone, marble, blue paste, a carnelian bead section tubular and a glazed bead. Found in [drawing] [W] one clay coffin.
	6754A	(none)	1927,0527.92	(none)	[A-B] 2 copper graves. Both shaped with flat rims and two handles at each end. Covered over by wooden lid let down into ground by ropes. Corbelled burnt brick box built over them. Traces of rope remain on one handle of (A). Neo-Babylonian [Neo-Babylonian has been crossed out]. Entered in [illegible, maybe tab or lab] and no graves P.1, 2. E.
	6754B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 copper graves. Both shaped with flat rims and two handles at each end. Covered over by wooden lid let down into ground by ropes. Corbelled burnt brick box built over them. Neo-Babylonian [Neo-Babylonian has been crossed out] Entered in [illegible, maybe tab or lab] and no graves P.1, 2. E.
	7138A	(none)	(none)	B16653	Larnax grave. Light drab. Broken. B.
	7139	(none)	(none)	(none)	Coffin. Baked clay. Bath shaped. B.

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