This is the end panel from a rectangular coffin showing a winged scarab. With no. 6863 on side . Lower section shows two male seated figures (Horus and Osiris) with two females (Nephthys and Isis). The goddesses where long Egyptian style garments which fall in scalloped-shaped drapes. From Tuna el-Gebel. The frieze includes Horus, Isis and Osiris. The Upper scene shows the deceased restored to life and worshipping the solar disc. W1042 and W1042a possibly belong to the same coffin. This is presumably from a box coffin which would have had a vaulted lid and four corner posts. (Corner posts first appear in the 25th Dynasty and are revived in the Roman Period in western Thebes, perhaps inspired by uncovering of earlier forms). Such coffins tended to be outer coffins. See a similar coffin in Kurth, Dieter 1990. Der Sarg der Teuris: eine Studie zum Totenglauben im romerzeitlichen Agypten. The winged scarab also appears on a Roman Period Coffin of the 2nd century AD from Qurna, Thebes belonging to Cleopatra (EA6706).

Anonymous. 1996. The face of Egypt: Swansea Festival exhibition: 5 October 1996–5 January 1997. Swansea: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery. [Cat. 256]