Anthropoid Coffin of a Woman

Unknown

ca. 1479–1458 B.C. · Wood, gesso, paint · Egyptian Art

This coffin belonged to an anonymous elderly woman who was interred on the hillside of Sheikh Abd el Qurna in a chamber constructed of rough rock slabs. Both box and lid are crudely hollowed out of two sections of a sycomore log, and the painted decoration, consisting of a blue and yellow wig cover, a broad collar, and uninscribed body bands, is rather clumsy.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1479–1458 B.C.

Medium

Wood, gesso, paint

Department

Egyptian Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1936