Coffin Fragment with a Mummy on a Funerary Bed

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Coffin Fragment with a Mummy on a Funerary Bed

Culture: Egyptian

Period: Late Period-Ptolemaic Period

Date: ca. 664-30 B.C.

Medium: Painted wood

Dimensions:

10 1/4 x 10 1/4 x 1 3/4 in. (26 x 26 x 4.4 cm)

Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.

Object number: 94.44.2

Provenance: sold, Christie's, New York, June 10, 1994, lot 57, to San Antonio Museum of Art

Published References Christie's, New York, June 10, 1994, lot 57.

Label Text

This panel came from the lid of a wooden coffin decorated with images showing the preparation of a mummy for burial. Here, the wrapped mummy lies on a funerary bed that takes the form of a lion. Between the lion’s legs are four canopic jars to hold the mummy’s internal organs. Beneath this scene, parts of two hieroglyphic inscriptions are visible: these texts requested offerings to sustain the deceased in the afterlife.

(J. Powers, 2019)

Not on view

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Coffin Fragment with a Mummy on a Funerary Bed

Coffin Fragment with a Mummy on a Funerary Bed