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HEDVIG GYŐRY: On the Collars of the Gamhud Coffins

6. The neckband and collar of coffin, inv. no. 51.1994, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts beyond doubt. Furthermore, the mutual relationship of groups A and B is also ambiguous, as it cannot be deduced finnly that they differ in nature or represent successive forms. Possibly type A, which is closely bound to the conventions of late dynastic decoration patterns, predates type B which is nothing other than a simplified version of the former. Again, the coincidence of groups D and C deserves to be studied in the future. The dating of the Gamhud coffins has not been settled, either. If the chronological implications of the cartonnage sets from Akhmim also apply to the Gamhud cartonnages,

91 the types composed of several pieces or of one sheet of linen with mask and foot case suggest that the cemetery could have been used throughout the whole Ptolemaic and possibly in the short transitory period following the Roman conquest. Groups A and B make use of motifs well known in Late period and they seem to be indeed the earliest type in Gamhud. These coffins may have appeared perhaps in the middle of the third century BC at the latest, when, for instance, the coffin of DjedHor was made in Akhmim. The grid and vertical zigzag pattern occurred as a new 91 A. Schweitzer, "L'évolution stylistique et iconographique des parures de cartonage d'

Akhmim du début de l'époque ptolemaique a l'époque romaine," Bulletin de l'institut français d'archéologie orientale, tfairo 98 (1998), 325-52.