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De mummiekist van Pefjaoeneith. Conservering in context.

January 2017

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Helbertijn Krudop

Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden

Lara Weiss

National Museum of Antiquity, Leiden

Possible provenance, conservation history and recent conservation project of the mummy coffin of Peftjauneith.

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