Coffin lid

Description

Lid of a tall rishi-style coffin of painted and gilded tamarisk wood of an unknown woman, probably a member of the royal family at Thebes : Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Qurna, 2nd Intermediate Period, 17th Dynasty, c.1585-1545 BC

Museum reference

A.1909.527.1 A

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Coffin lid

Production information

Unknown
Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

2nd Intermediate Period, 17th Dynasty

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Tamarisk wood, Gilt

Physical description

Tamarisk wood, gilt

Collection place(s)

Qurna, Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Excavator: Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Professor Sir, 1853 - 1942

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Treasured: Wonderful Things, Amazing Stories (14 Nov 2008 - 01 Jan 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
  Royal Scottish Museum

• Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Petrie, W M F.(1909), Qurneh (London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt).pp.6-10, pl. XXII-XXIX

Ward, E., (1912): Guide to the Collections of Egyptian Antiquities (Edinburgh: His Majesty’s Stationery Office), p.7, pl. III

Petrie, W.M.F., (1932) Seventy Years in Archaeology (London: Low, Marston & Co),pp. 211-12

Eremin, K.A., Goring, E., Manley, W.P., and Cartwright, C. (2000): ‘A Seventeenth Dynasty Egyptian Queen in Edinburgh’ in KMT. A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt, 11/3, pp.32-40

Eremin, K.A., Manley, W.P., Shortland, A., and Wilkinson, C.(2002): ‘The Facial Reconstruction of an Ancient Egyptian Queen’ in Journal of Audiovisual media in Medicine 25/4, pp.155-59

Howell G. M. Edwards, Susana E. Jorge Villar, Katherine A. Eremin, (2004) 'Raman spectroscopic analysis of pigments from dynastic Egyptian funerary artefacts', Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 35/8‐9 (Raman spectroscopy in Art and Archaeology, August ‐ September 2004), 786-795.

Dodson, A. M., and Hilton, D., (2004): The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt (London: Thames and Hudson), pp. 123-24

Roehrig, C.H. (ed.) (2005): Hatshepsut. From Queen to Pharaoh (New York, New Haven, London: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press), pp. 15-22

Miniaci, G., (2007): ‘Mariette at Dra Abu el-Naga and the Tomb of Neferhotep: A Mid 13th Dynasty Rishi Coffin’ in Egitto e Vicino Oriente 31 pp 5-25

Miniaci, G; (2007) 'Some remarks on the development of rishi coffins'. In: Grallert, S and Grajetzki, W, (eds.) Life and Afterlife in the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period, pp. 95-6

Manley, B., 'Petrie's Revolutions : The Case of the Qurneh Queen' in Egypt in its African Context : Proceedings of the Conference held at The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, 2-4 October 2009 (Oxford : Archeopress), pp.92-97

Manley, B and Dodson, A., (2010) Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins (Edinburgh: NMS Enterprises Ltd.), pp.21-27

Miniaci, Gianluca (2011), Rishi Coffins and the Funerary Culture of Second Intermediate Period Egypt (London: Golden House Publications), pp. 65-66, 141, 249 as rT01ED

Sousa, R. (2019) Gilded Flesh: Coffins and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt (Oxford: Oxbow Books), 66-76

Stable, C., Maitland, M., de Bellaigue, D., Potter, D. M., Murray, M. and Bryan, B. (2021) ‘Rediscovering Ancient Egypt: Consideration of the Legacy, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Previously Restored Egyptian Artefacts’, Journal of the Institute of Conservation, 44/2, pp.134-152

Schmidt, V (2022 [2019]), Sarcophagi, Mummy Coffins, and Mummy Cases in Ancient Egypt: A Typological Atlas, transl. Jonker, Z (Albany, NY: Ancient Egyptian Heritage & Archaeology Fund), nos. 364-5, p. 69 [83].

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