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21a Theban Dynasty of the High Priests of Amun 1070-945 BCE (family members, their
relationships, and chronology)
Cache of the Royal Mummies, Theban Tomb TT320, 21a Dynasty
Coffins, Funerary Equipment, Mummies of the 21a Dynasty High Priests family linked with corresponding texts and
original CESRAS photographs by Research Fellows Alexej A. Krol, Sergej V. Ivanov and Edward R. Loring.
Coffins directory (Photographic CESRAS studies of coffins, mostly painted anthropoid coffins of the 21a Dynasty
1070-945 BCE, in Cairo, Russia, and republics of the former Soviet Union)
Iconography Directory (under construction)
Leather Funerary Baldachin of Isetemkheb B, Cairo National Museum JE-26276
Maspero G.: Les Momies Royales de Déir el-Baharî (Memoires de la Mission Française au Caire,
Paris, 1889), complete text and plates with modern annotations and corrections; indexed and subjects/persons linked
with parallel material in other sections of this site.)
Mummies Directory (Mummies of Kings, Royals, and high ranking persons in the National Museum, Cairo)
Names' Transcriptions (Ancient Egyptian persons mentioned on this site. Personal names and those of deities
are transcribed differently in both modern languages and linguistic misunderstandings of Ancient Egyptian in the early
days of egyptological studies. We have grouped the various orthographies to the current English versions.
Personages Home Page Directory: Every historical person who appears on this site has her or his "Home
Page" There you will find information on the person and an index of links to take you to locations on this site where the
person appears in texts and/or photographs. Relationships between persons are also linked and commented. As the
21a Theban Dynasty of Piankh is our main object of study at this time, you will be able to navigate a detailed web of the
High Priests' family dynasty during its 125 years of rule over Upper Egypt.
Smith G. E.: The Royal Mummies, (Catalogue Général des Antiquités Égyptiennes du Musée du Caire, 1912:
CG numbers 61051-61100); complete text with modern annotations and digitally improved plates; Linked navigation to
parallel material on this site. Smith gives a detailed forensic pathological study of the royal mummies. This material is
well illustrated and still valid today.
They were not yellow (21a Dynasty painted anthropoid coffins from the "Royal Cache" TT320)
Photographs by Sergej V. Ivanov to lecture by Edward R. Loring (Proceedings of the International conference
Achievements and Problems of Modern Egyptology held by the Centre for Egyptological Studies of the Russian
Academy of Sciences, Sept.29-Oct. 2, 2009 in Moscow.
Scenes and figures from anthropoid coffins of the 21a Dynasty
Representations of Deities (figurative and aniconic, several periods)
Construction of anthropoid coffins as shown by damaged examples
Iconographical Thesauri (Dr. Dr. Maya Müller, www.egyticon.org)
Islamic Egyptian Ceramics of the Fatimide Period
Egyptian Textiles of Late Antiquity (ca. 300-650 BCE)


original colours
JE-29612 Bab el-Gasus
outer coffin of Maatkare,
Chantress, D21a
original photo,mutated colours