This way of rendering dead bodies seems to have persisted for several centuries for it recurs on the seventh-century B.C. relief frieze from Nineveh depicting the battle on the river Ulai, as well as on a Greek Geometric oinochoe (wine jug), now in the Antikensammlung in Munich, on which there is a shipwreck scene. For a photograph of Tutankhamuns box, see Alan R. Millard, King Ogs Iron BedFact or Fancy? BR 06:02.
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