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Alexander Hamilton, FSA, 10th Duke of Hamilton (1767–1852), was one of the great collectors of his day, whose pretensions, wealth and collections of art led to his being dubbed ‘Il Magnifico’. Among his possessions were two anthropoid stone sarcophagi – the only Egyptian antiquities he ever owned. One belonged to Pabasa, a late 7th century BC Steward of the God’s Wife of Amun at Thebes. The other had been made for a 3rd/2nd century BC lady named Iretiru, and had been acquired by accident, as the culmination of a series of mutual misunderstandings between the duke and the British Museum, of which he was a Trustee. The sarcophagus of Pabasa is now in the Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery in Glasgow, but that of Iretiru has rested since 1921 under the soil of a cemetery in the duke’s home town, southeast of Glasgow – containing the mummified body of Duke Alexander.
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