Tut Ankh Amun's second golden sarcophagus
Made of particleboard, covered with gold leaf, inlaid with semi-precious stones and multicolored glass. It represents a mummified figure of Osiris, the lord of eternity, with his arms crossed over his body. Its length was 2.04 meters, and it was built of hitherto unknown wood covered with a layer of gold foil.
His chest holding his divine insignia, wand, and wand. The lid of the coffin was held in place by small rivets from an alloy of silver and gold.
There is an inscribed
silver stud, one in ten, which holds the lid and base of the second sarcophagus
of Tut Ankh Amun Nabakhiori.
Unfortunately, there were no handles on the second coffin like the first.
Furthermore, ten silver nails with golden heads were used to secure the lid of the second coffin,
and these were in a place not easily accessible with the outer casing (below the outer box) still in place. So Carter removed these nails enough to attach a "strong copper wire" to each of them and then attached "strong metal grommets" to the edge of the outer casket and the two were separated by lowering the outer casing into the coffin while the inner one hung suspended.
From the tomb of Tut Ankh Amun(AD 62), Valley of the Kings, west of Thebes. Now in the Egyptian
Museum in Cairo.
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