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What is a anthropoid coffin?

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The anthropoid ceramic coffins of the Late Bronze Age Levant are a unique burial practice that is a synthesis of Egyptian and Near Eastern ideologies.
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Anthropoid or person shaped coffins. They are important to ancient Egyptians. They believed the coffins acted as a substitute body for use after death.
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