Coffin footboard

Description

Footboard of wood, from cartonnage coffin or mummy-case, painted in red, black and yellow depicting the Apis bull carrying the mummy of the deceased, a man named Pamiu, striding over the desert towards a pyramidal tomb: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, 3rd Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty, 790-762 BC

Museum reference

A.1956.194

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Coffin footboard

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

790 - 762 BC

Style / Culture

22nd Dynasty, 3rd Intermediate Period, Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Wood

Physical description

Wood; painted in red, black and yellow

Collection place(s)

Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Depicted: Pamiu
Apis bull
Excavator: Rhind, Alexander Henry, 1833 - 1863

Exhibitions

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

• The Tomb

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

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

References

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

MURRAY, M A 1900. Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh (Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland) : 35, 37, 61[550a]

Manley, B and Dodson, A., (2010) Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins (Edinburgh: NMS Enterprises Ltd.), Cat. 23, p.72

On display

national museum of scotland »
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world cultures, ancient egypt rediscovered