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Material : Wood , Gold Leaf , and Glass Paste
Found in : Valley of the Kings (1907)
Period : The New Kingdom
Reign of : Akhenaton
Dynasty: XVIII
Belonged_to: Smenkhkara
Archeologist : T . M . DAVIS
This Sarcophagus is one of the unique pieces that date back to the 18th Dynasty . It was discovered in the mysterious tomb no . 55 and was firstly assumed to be the sarcophagus of queen Tiy , the wife of Amenhotep III , but it was discovered later that it belongs to Smenkhkara , the cooregent and successor to Akhenaten who died prematurely , perhaps even before the "heretical pharaoh . " This assumbtion is evidenced by the appearance of the uraeus serpent , false beard , scepter and flial by the hands of the young aged pharaoh .
This coffin was found just along side the canopic niche of the tomb and is distinguished from the standard sarcophagi in this reign in numerous features . The wig on the head on the pharaoh differs from the traditional royal wig and was not used at that time at all , but another wig with similar style was found in Tutankhamun tomb . The sarcophagus was once decorated with cartouches of the pharaoh and his eye was covered with a gold leaf that served as a funerary mask , but these things were erased leaving the face in an unrecognizable face and vague identity of the deceased . Moreover , the scepter and the flail in the hands of the deceased are not found currently .
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