coffin
- Museum number
- EA6950
- Description
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Base-board and cover of the wooden coffin of Cornelius Pollius, decorated and inscribed: the base-board is rectangular and the cover would have fitted into the holes at the four corners, decorated with a polychrome painted representation of a bird, with wings outstretched with Nut, full-length, with long hair, wearing a tunic which short sleeves and a striped garment, fastened by straps over the shoulders, ear-rings and snake-bracelet, flanked by representations of Isis and Nephthys, standing in mourning, each supported by a plant, with a red stem and black leaves or flowers, Nut's feet are flanked by jackals, with traces of a black resinous deposit adhering; the vaulted cover, now incomplete, is decorated on the interior with a polychrome painted representation of Nut, extended over the mummy, with hands raised above head and surrounded by the twelve signs of the zodiac, the exterior is also decorated.
- Production date
- 100-120
- Dimensions
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Length: 204 centimetres
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Width: 62 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Found with .6705
Found with .6707
Found with .6708
Published:
S. Walker and M. Bierbrier, Fayum. Misteriosi volti dall'Egitto, London 1997, pp. 178-179 [136].
Riggs, Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt (2005): 183, 186, 191, 193, 282.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- fair (cover damaged)
- Acquisition date
- 1823
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA6950
- Registration number
- .6950
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BS.6950 (Birch Slip Number)
