Object Number | E3413B |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Ptolemaic |
Provenience | Egypt | Dendereh |
Period | Ptolemaic Period | Thirty-Third Dynasty |
Date Made | 305-30 BCE |
Section | Egyptian |
Materials | Wood | Pigment |
Iconography | Isis | Nephthys | Falcon Heads | Mummy | Bier |
Description | Painted wooden coffin of Djed-Hapi (earlier read as Sakhpimau). The coffin has an idealized head of the deceased wearing a long black wig and a false beard. The coffin is decorated with a wide collar with 9 horizontal bands of floral and beaded imagery with falcon-headed terminals. Below the collar is a scene of a mummy on a lion-headed bier with mourning goddesses (Isis and Nephthys) on either side. Below this is a funerary text of five columns invoking the god Anubis. The names of his parents are also given. his father was called Petosiris and his mother's name was Sermuthepet. |
Height | 13 cm |
Length | 180 cm |
Width | 55 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Ethelbert Watts, 1898 |
Other Number | AES91A - Original Number |
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