Coffin-base

Description

Wooden coffin base formed of white-washed planks of sycamore-fig and cedar of Lebanon, for a two year old child of indeterminate gender : Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Qurna, 2nd Intermediate Period, 17th Dynasty, c.1585-1545 BC

Museum reference

A.1909.527.10

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Coffin-base

Production information

Unknown
Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

2nd Intermediate Period, 17th Dynasty

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Sycomore-fig wood, Cedar of Lebanon

Collection place(s)

Qurna, Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Excavator: Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Professor Sir, 1853 - 1942

Exhibitions

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

• Treasured: Wonderful Things, Amazing Stories (14 Nov 2008 - 01 Jan 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Heaven and Hell and other worlds of the dead (01 Jul 2000 - 01 Feb 2001)
  Royal Museum of Scotland

• Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
  Royal Scottish Museum

• Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Petrie, W M F.(1909), Qurneh (London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt).pp.6-10, pl. XXII-XXIX

Ward, E., (1912): Guide to the Collections of Egyptian Antiquities (Edinburgh: His Majesty’s Stationery Office), p.7, pl. III

Petrie, W.M.F., (1932) Seventy Years in Archaeology (London: Low, Marston & Co),pp. 211-12

Eremin, K.A., Goring, E., Manley, W.P., and Cartwright, C. (2000): ‘A Seventeenth Dynasty Egyptian Queen in Edinburgh’ in KMT. A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt, 11/3, pp.32-40

Eremin, K.A., Manley, W.P., Shortland, A., and Wilkinson, C.(2002): ‘The Facial Reconstruction of an Ancient Egyptian Queen’ in Journal of Audiovisual media in Medicine 25/4, pp.155-59

Manley, B., 'Petrie's Revolutions : The Case of the Qurneh Queen' in Egypt in its African Context : Proceedings of the Conference held at The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, 2-4 October 2009 (Oxford : Archeopress), pp.92-97

Manley, B and Dodson, A., (2010) Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins (Edinburgh: NMS Enterprises Ltd.), pp.26-27

Maitland, Margaret, Daniel M. Potter, and Lore Troalen 2022. The burial of the "Qurna Queen". In Miniaci, Gianluca and Peter Lacovara (eds), The treasure of the Egyptian queen Ahhotep and international relations at the turn of the Middle Bronze Age (1600-1500 BCE), 205-233. London: Golden House

On display

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