Fragment of a coffin


Accession Number
EC284
Current Location
In storage
Object Type
Tomb equipment, Coffin/sarcophagus/cartonnage, Coffin/sarcophagus panel
Period
Late Period
Dynasties
Twenty-fifth Dynasty to Twenty-sixth Dynasty
Material
Wood
Number of Elements
1
Measurements
Height: 434mm | Width: 313mm | Depth: 52mm

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Description

A coffin fragment with a wadjet eye and hieroglyphs painted thereon, likely dating to the Twenty-fifth or Twenty-sixth Dynasty. This shows a shrouded Sokar hawk. A similar Sokar hawk can be seen on the chest of a mummy from Thebes (Aston 2009, fig. 10). Like this example, behind the hawk, the Eye can be seen on a neb basket. As the script is going one way and the pictures the other, this appears to be part of the footboard of a pedestal coffin. See also the coffin of Hor at Leiden (Inv. AMM3). The Eye and Sokar hawk would be placed so as to be the correct way round when viewed from the head of the coffin.

Bibliography

Anonymous. 1996. The face of Egypt: Swansea Festival exhibition: 5 October 1996–5 January 1997. Swansea: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery. [Cat. 229]

Inscription

dd mdw i͗n gb i͗ry-pꜥt nṯrw prt [...] Words spoken by Geb, the hereditary prince of the gods [...]

Language
Egyptian
Script
Hieroglyphic
Last modified: 03 May 2021

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