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Maherpra’s first coffin, courtesy www.meretsegerbooks.com Luxury objects found in Maherpra’s tomb, courtesy
www.meretsegerbooks.com

TWO DOG COLLARS IN MAHERPRA’S GRAVE
BY JEAN BRIXHE, BELGIUM

MAHERPRA’S GRAVE, DISCOVERED IN 1899 IN THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS, CONTAINS SEVERAL LUXURY
ITEMS INCLUDING 2 DOG LEATHER COLLARS. THESE COLLARS ARE NOW KEPT BY THE CAIRO MUSEUM.

ARTICLE PUBLISHED ORIGINALLY IN PHARAON,
LE MAGAZINE DE L’EGYPTE ETERNELLE, 2018, NO 32
TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH WITH AUTHOR’S PERMISSION
BY DR. DOMINIQUE CRAPON DE CAPRONA, USA

Maherpra’s Tomb The majority of “transportable worth”

(jewelry, precious metals…) had been
In March of 1899, Victor Loret, General “removed” by intruders. One can assume

Director of Egypt’s Antiquities Service, that it was not a question of usual grave
discovered Maherpra’s tomb close to that looters but more of an official “removal” in
of Amenhotep II. Maherpra’s tomb had the context of recycling of riches.
been intruded upon in Antiquity but had
been sealed again and for the most part, Among the items left in the tomb were 2
the objects had remained in their place of dog collars. Later on, one considered -
origin. certainly quite rightly - that these collars

indicate perhaps that Maherpra was, in
Among these: Maherpra’s mummy, his some way, linked to the royal animals that
coffins, a beautiful “Book of the Dead”, Theodore Davis would find almost a decade
quivers and arrows, vases, as well as many later, buried not far from the tomb of
other objects. Amenhotep II.