Coffin base

Description

Inner coffin base of sycamore wood, of Nesmut (Chantress of Amun), plastered and painted: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, 3rd Intermediate Period, 21st or 22nd Dynasty, c. 1070/69 - 735 BC

Museum reference

A.1956.354

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Coffin base

Production information

Unknown
Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

c. 1070/69 - 735 BC

Style / Culture

21st Dynasty, 3rd Intermediate Period, Ancient Egyptian
22nd Dynasty, 3rd Intermediate Period, Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Wood

Collection place(s)

Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Excavator: Rhind, Alexander Henry, 1833 - 1863
Depicted: Nesmut [lady of the estate and temple-singer of Amun]

Exhibitions

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

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

References

MURRAY, M. A. (1900): Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh (Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland).36, 58-59[544]

NIWINSKI, A. (1988): 21st Dynasty Coffins from Thebes: Chronological and Typological Studies. Theben 5 (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern). 138[184]

Manley, B and Dodson, A., (2010) Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins (Edinburgh: NMS Enterprises Ltd.), pp. 53-55