Coffin

Unknown

ca. 1802–1640 B.C. · Sycomore wood, paint · Egyptian Art

Like the other black-painted coffins in gallery 109, this one has bands of inscription containing spells from the Coffin texts. In the texts, a word meaning "whoever" appears in place of the coffin's eventual owner. The Horus eyes at the head end of the left side are enclosed in a panel with a cavetto cornice on top and a false door appears in the decorative polychrome dado along the bottom of the coffin box. A woman with upraised arms appears at the head and the foot of the coffin. These probably represent the goddesses Isis and Nephthys.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1802–1640 B.C.

Medium

Sycomore wood, paint

Department

Egyptian Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1932