Fragment of a coffin
- Accession Number
- W1051
- Current Location
- In storage
- Object Type
- Tomb equipment, Coffin/sarcophagus/cartonnage
- Period
- Third Intermediate Period
- Dynasties
- Twenty-first Dynasty to Twenty-second Dynasty
- Material
- Wood
- Provenance
- Egypt, Thebes/Luxor
- Measurements
- Height: 252mm | Width: 490mm | Depth: 59mm
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Culture
- Egyptian
- Divine Name
- Hapy (son of Horus) | Imsety
Licensing details
- Description
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A curved coffin fragment with a yellow background. It dates to the Third intermediate Period. This is either the head or the foot end of the lower section of a a coffin. but seems more likely to be part of the head end of a coffin. It is from the Theban necropolis. The pre-1997 catalogue card states it is 'probably from a cachette of 150 coffins of families of the High Priests of Amun found in 1891'. The fragment outer surface has a yellow background, and, in the top register, a row of uraei (snakes in rearing, protective form) each with a feather. There is an inscription upon it. The inner section shows two of the four sons of Horus (Imsety and Hapy) standing before libation vases on stands. There is also the star in the circle sign of the Duat. The decoration suggests that this fragment dates to the Twenty-first Dynasty. Likely part of the same coffin as W1055.
- 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: 08 Sep 2022