Kárpáti Zoltán - Liptay Éva - Varga Ágota szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 101. (Budapest, 2004)

HEDVIG GYŐRY: On the Collars of the Gamhud Coffins

4. The neckband and collar of coffin, inv. no. 51.1990, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts G. The collar of coffin 51.2018/2 (fig. 9.) looks quite odd but not unparalleled in the Gamhud corpus. Unfortunately, only the lateral plate of the lid has been preserved. Both types of the grid pattern can be detected on coffins in different museum collections, see the discussion of the grid pattern above. Perhaps an el-Hibeh workshop affected the way of decoration, as a rhomboid coffin in Cracow is reported to have come from there. CONCLUSIONS From the comparison of coffin types against their collar decoration, it becomes apparent that collar types A, B and C manifest only on bulked coffins, while groups D, E and G are associated with both bulked and rhomboid coffins, whereas group F is related to the rhomboid coffin. This pattern of distribution lends credit to the fact that in the beginning only bulked coffins were prepared for the Gamhud cemetery; later on,