Fragment of a coffin
- Accession Number
- EC417
- Current Location
- In storage
- Object Type
- Tomb equipment, Coffin/sarcophagus/cartonnage
- Period
- Late Period
- Dynasties
- Twenty-fifth Dynasty to Twenty-sixth Dynasty
- Material
- Wood
- Measurements
- Height: 218mm | Width: 99mm | Depth: 17mm
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Divine Name
- Geb | Osiris
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Licensing details
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- Description
-
A coffin fragment of painted wood, dating from the Twenty-fifth to the Twenty-sixth Dynasty. It shows a figure facing left with a feather. Underneath him is the beginning of the Offering Formula, and to the left is another hieroglyphic inscription.
- Other Identity
- 1093 (circular serrated label on the inside)
- Previous Owners
- Robert de Rustafjaell (1859–1943) | Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
- Inscription
-
Exterior (horizontal): ḥtp di͗ nswt n <ws>i͗r [...] An offer which the King gives to Osiris [...] Exterior (vertical): ḏd mdw i͗n gb <i͗>r<y>-pꜥ<t> nṯrw nbw Words spoken by Geb, the Hereditary Prince of all the gods
- Language
- Egyptian
- Script
- Hieroglyphic
- Last modified: 03 May 2021