Coffin base / model

Description

Model coffin base of brownish pink pottery with white wash, roughly rectangular with rounded ends: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, probably Thebes, late 2nd Intermediate Period, c.1650 - 1550 BC

Museum reference

A.1956.198

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Coffin base / model

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

2nd Intermediate Period, Ancient Egyptian

Style / Culture

2nd Intermediate Period, Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Ceramic

Collection place(s)

Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Excavator: Rhind, Alexander Henry, 1833 - 1863

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Catalogue of the National Museum of Antiquities 1863, No. 126

Murray, M. 1900. Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the National Museum of Antiquities, p. 39 No. 553; p. 59 No. 31

On display

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