Coffin-base

Description

Baseboard from the trough of an anthropoid coffin, of plastered and painted wood, decorated in the centre with a figure of king Amenhotep I holding a crook and flail surrounded by other funerary gods: Ancient Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, early Third Intermediate Period, late 21st or early 22nd Dynasty, c. 967-934 BC

Museum reference

A.1956.356

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Coffin-base

Production information

Unknown
Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

3rd Intermediate Period
21st - 22nd Dynasty

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Collection place(s)

Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Excavator?: Rhind, Alexander Henry, 1833 - 1863

Exhibitions

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

References

Catalogue of the National Museum of Antiquities, 1863. No. 58

RHIND, A. H. (1862): Thebes: its Tombs and their Tenants Ancient and Present (London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts) pp.125-127

MURRAY, M. A. (1900): Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh (Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland).37[547]

B Porter & R B Moss (1960–64) Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings (Oxford: Clarendon Press/Griffith Institute) : p.677

NIWINSKI, A. (1988): 21st Dynasty Coffins from Thebes: Chronological and Typological Studies. Theben 5 (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern) pp.138-139[185]

ASTON, D.A., (2009) 'Burial Assemblages of Dynasty 21-25: Chronology-Typology-Developments (Vienna: Verlag der Osterreichisehen Akadamie der Wissenschaften) p.233

Manley, B and Dodson, A., (2010) Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins (Edinburgh: NMS Enterprises Ltd.), pp.39-40