coffin
- Museum number
- EA24906
- Description
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Base and lid of the wooden coffin of Pensenhor, a Libyan who settled in Egypt, anthropoid, with polychrome painted decoration on a white ground: wearing wig and collar, the lid is decorated with religious scenes, including representations of Osiris, the four Sons of Horus, Thoth and Isis, and a prayer to Osiris; unusual features include the vignette showing Anubis weighing the heart of the deceased and the emblem of Osiris hung over the collar; the foot section is decorated with a representation of the deceased before Osiris and Isis; the interior of the base is decorated with a full-length representation of Nut with outstretched arms.
- Production date
- BC945-715 (c.)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- PM I Part 2: p.829
Taylor, in Strudwick and Taylor (eds): The Theban Necropolis. (2003) p.109 [pl.58].
On his name, see A. Leahy, GM 62 (1983), p. 41
- Location
- On display (G62/dc21)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2010 4th Nov-2011 6th March, Round Reading Room BM, Book of the Dead
2012 July -September, Tokyo, Mori museum, The Book of the Dead: Journey Through the Afterlife
2012, October - November, Fukuoka Museum of Art, The Book of the Dead
2013, May - September, Perth, Western Australian Museum, The Book of the Dead
- Condition
- good
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Book of the Dead
- Acquisition date
- 1893
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA24906
- Registration number
- 1893,0514.183
