coffin
- Museum number
- EA6708
- Description
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Base board and vaulted cover of the coffin of Tphous, daughter of Heraclius Soter and Serapous, the base board is rectangular and there are four corner posts: the gable ends are decorated with painted scarabs and winged solar discs with rearing uraei; with registers of hieroglyphs and one panel of Greek inscription, the latter records that Tphous died aged 6 years, 8 months and 2 days in the reign of Hadrian, and was interred in the family tomb some 10 months later; on each side of the coffin the dead girl, accompanied by Anubis, is shown in the presence of Osiris with, on one side, the Apis bull and Ra-Horakhty and, on the other, two of the Sons of Horus, behind; below a solar barque is towed by three jackals, joined by a snake; the rest of the surface is decorated with funerary deities, inscriptions and other decorative motifs.
- Production date
- 2ndC(early)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Found with .6950
Found with .6707
Published:
S. Walker and M. Bierbrier, Fayum. Misteriosi volti dall'Egitto, London 1997, pp. 178-179 [136].
PM I Part 2: p.675
Riggs, in Strudwick and Taylor (eds.): The Theban Necropolis (2003). P.193 [pl.100]
Riggs, Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt (2005): 183, 183 Fig, 86, 185, 186, 191, 193, 194, 282.
- Location
- On display (G62/dc27)
- Condition
- fair (decoration faded)
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA6708
- Registration number
- .6708
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BS.6708 (Birch Slip Number)
