Coffin base

Description

Coffin base of wood, of unknown woman, covered in gesso, painted on yellow ground with text and images: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, 3rd Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, c. 1070/69 - 946/945 BC

Museum reference

A.UC.70

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Coffin base

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

c. 1070 - 945 BC

Style / Culture

21st Dynasty, 3rd Intermediate Period, Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Wood

Physical description

Wood, yellow painted

Collection place(s)

Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Previous owner: Sir Joseph Straton

References

NIWINSKI, A. (1988): 21st Dynasty Coffins from Thebes: Chronological and Typological Studies. Theben 5 (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern). p.138[182].

Howell G. M. Edwards, Susana E. Jorge Villar, Katherine A. Eremin, (2004) 'Raman spectroscopic analysis of pigments from dynastic Egyptian funerary artefacts', Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 35/8‐9 (Raman spectroscopy in Art and Archaeology, August ‐ September 2004), 786-795.

Manley, B and Dodson, A., (2010) Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins (Edinburgh: NMS Enterprises Ltd.), pp. 41-45