Coffin base

Description

Base of the outer coffin, of white-painted wood, of Amenhotepyin, son of Khaamun and Bakri: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, 3rd Intermediate Period, late 25th Dynasty, c. 754 - 656 BC

Museum reference

A.1869.33

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Coffin base

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

754 - 656 BC

Style / Culture

25th Dynasty (Kushite), 3rd Intermediate Period, Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Wood

Physical description

Wood, white-painted

Collection place(s)

Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Previous owner: Amenhotepiin

Exhibitions

• Fascinating Mummies (11 Feb 2012 - 27 May 2012)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

LIEBLEIN, J 1871. Dictionnaire de noms hiéroglyphiques en ordre généalogique et alphabetique (Christiana: Brögger & Christie), p.432/1354

BIRCH, S 1874. “Account of Coffins and Mummies Discovered in Egypt on the Occasion of the Visit of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales in 1868-9”, Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature 2nd series/10: p. 189, 212 [4]

B Porter & R B Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings (Oxford: Clarendon Press/Griffith Institute), I/1, The Theban Necropolis2 Part 1 (1960), I/2, The Theban Necropolis2 Part 2 (1964) p 673, pl II

SEEBER, C 1976. Untersuchungen zur Darstellung des Totengerichts im alten Ägypten (Munich & Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag), p.217

ADAMS, C V A 1990. “An Investigation into the Mummies Presented to H. R. H. the Prince of Wales in 1869”, Discussions in Egyptology 18: pp. 5-19.

NAIL, N.H. 2000 'The Coffins and Mummies Presented to Edward Prince of Wales during his 1869 Egyptian Tour Revisited' Discussions in Egyptology, Oxford, 48, pp. 67-79

ASTON, D A 2009 'Burial assemblages of dynasty 21-25 : chronology-typology-developments' Vienna, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pp. 252-53

Manley, B and Dodson, A., (2010) Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins (Edinburgh: NMS Enterprises Ltd.), Cat. 27, pp. 82-84

Sheikholeslami, Cynthia 2014 'Sokar-Osiris and the Goddesses: Some Twenty-Fifth-Twenty-sixth Dynasty Coffins from Thebes' in Thebes in the First Millenium BC, ed. Pischikova et al, pp. 453-482

Sheikholeslami, Cynthia 2017 'Iconography and dating of some Vatican coffins' in Proceedings of the First Vatican Coffin Conference Vol. 1, eds. Amenta and Guichard, pp. 488, 490-92