Coffin fragment
- Accession Number
- EC409
- Current Location
- House of Death (ground floor), Coffins case, Left
- Object Type
- Tomb equipment, Coffin/sarcophagus/cartonnage
- Period
- Late Period
- Dynasty
- Twenty-sixth Dynasty
- Material
- Wood
- Provenance
- Egypt
- Measurements
- Width: 75mm | Depth: 35mmm | Height: 420mm
- Number of Elements
- 1
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Licensing details
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- Description
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A fragment of a wooden anthropoid coffin. This shows spirits from the underworld and the divine ba. The inscription records offerings to Osiris. It dates to the Twenty-sixth Dynasty.
- Previous Owner
- Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Assumed long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
- Language
- Egyptian
- Script
- Hieroglyphic
- Last modified: 18 Oct 2020