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HEDVIG GYŐRY: On the Collars of the Gamhud Coffins

3. The neckband and collar of coffin, inv. no. 51.1989, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts Although the vertical zigzag pattern has been mentioned as characteristic, it does not appear on every single coffin: for such examples, see the coffins inv. nos. 51.1994 and 51.1999. F. Unique is the collar's ornament on coffin inv. no. 51.2018/1 (fig. 8) in the Budapest collection. Units composed of three rows of distinctive patterns, of which only the disk pattern could be labelled as a conventional Gamhud design, govern the decoration of the collar. The type of lotus motif, which appears with the disk pattern, is a kind of wedgedshaped one (2.), and most probably closely related to the other lotus design used at Gamhud, is otherwise extraneous in the Budapest collection. The use of the stylised lily-like form might have been the result of an interference with some distant workshop, most likely in Akhmim.