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coffin
Object Type
coffin
Museum number
EA69851
Description
Part of the floor-board of a wooden anthropoid outer-coffin; painted decoration on plaster depicting Amenemope the owner offering to a funerary deity and Nun raising the solar barque; Hieroglyphic text.
Cultures/periods
21st Dynasty
(?;late)
22nd Dynasty
(?;early)
Production date
10thC BC
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Thebes (Upper Egypt - archaic)
Materials
wood
plaster
Technique
painted
plastered
Dimensions
Length:
47.70 centimetres
Width:
41.20 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject
funerary
Location
On display
(G63/dc3)
Exhibition history
Exhibited: 2008/9 Nov-Mar, Palazzo Reale, Milan, L`Anima dell Acqua
Condition
fair (incomplete)
Subjects
ancient egyptian deity
Associated names
Named in inscription & portrayed:
Amenemope
Representation of:
Nun
Department
Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number
EA69851
Registration number
1986,1205.1
Conservation
Treatment
: 04 Nov 2008
Treatment
: 05 Jan 1999
Treatment
: 31 Mar 1992