Coffin base

Description

Inner coffin base of black painted wood, of an unidentified man, representation of the goddess Nut in yellow paint in the bottom: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, 3rd Intermediate Period, early 22nd Dynasty, c. 946 - 875 BC

Museum reference

V.2007.278.1

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Coffin base

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

c. 946 - 875 BC

Style / Culture

22nd Dynasty, 3rd Intermediate Period, Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Wood, Paint

Collection place(s)

Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Depicted: Nut

References

c.f. Petrie, W M F: Qurneh. BSAE, 1909: 15[33] with pl. LII; Porter & Moss I2: 606.

c.f. Taylor in Strudwick, N & Taylor, J H (eds.): The Theban Necropolis: Past, Present and Future. British Museum Press, 2003: 107 n. 110, 117.

Manley, B and Dodson, A., (2010) Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins (Edinburgh: NMS Enterprises Ltd.), pp.56-57