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Text from the 1674 inventory
 
  ' A large Mummy put into a Coffin, which imitates the Body with Egyptian Script on it.'  
   
  Mummy coffin with the mummy of Wah-ib-Re
  Egypt  Probably 26th Dynasty (c. 664-525 B.C.) or a little later
 
  Wood
 
  Length 195 cm
 
  The National Museum of Denmark, The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities, Inv. nr. AAa2  
  'Museum regium' 1696 says that this Egyptian body is brought to Denmark by Peder Charisius who was Frederik III's ambassador in the the States General: depicted.  
 
   
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