Coffin fact file
Age: 4,000 years old/late 19th to early 18th
century BC.
Dynasty/Period: Middle Kingdom, second half of
12th Dynasty.
Dimensions: Length 178cm/Width 53.5cm
Material: Wood, with plaster wash and paint, plus
gilding and stone inlay.
Burial location: Deir Rifeh, Ancient Egypt.
Click on the images below to get a closer look at Khnumhotep's
coffin.
Coffin description: A human-shaped coffin
painted white, with four gold bands with black edging encircling
the lid and base. The lid shows a man with a black-painted
wig, gilded face, black-painted eyebrows and inlaid-stone
eyes. A false beard is attached to the chin, with gold
paint to indicate texture and a black-painted strap at the sides of
the face.
He wears a collar painted with 13 concentric bands of
black, red or green separated by narrow white lines, and an
outer band showing pairs of green or red drop-beads on a gold
base with a green border.
At the centre on the front of the lid is a column of gold
hieroglyphs on a green background, which runs from the bottom of
the collar to the lowest band at the ankles.
Coffin interior: The interior of the lid and
base are painted white but the left sides have been discoloured to
dark brown by oils associated with the mummy.