Serapeum box with lid sawn off (Cairo Museum), Cairo — Apis Sarcophagus of Khabash in the Greater Vaults of the Serapeum of Saqqara. Its lid is inscribed with the words…
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Serapeum box with lid sawn off (Cairo Museum)

A granite box in Cairo is said to come from the Serapeum, where 21 boxes weigh about 65 tons each.

This box's origin is uncertain. How much weight should we give an object whose history is unclear?

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Photo: Carole Raddato, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

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