Coffin footboard

Description

Footboard in painted wood, from cartonnage mummy-case, depicting an Apis bull in an animated pose: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, 3rd Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty, probably Osorkon I, c. 925/24 - 890 BC

Museum reference

A.1956.196

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Coffin footboard

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

c. 925/24 - 890 BC

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Wood

Physical description

Wood; painted in red and black on a white ground

Collection place(s)

Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Excavator: Rhind, Alexander Henry, 1833 - 1863

Exhibitions

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

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

References

Manley, B and Dodson, A., (2010) Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins (Edinburgh: NMS Enterprises Ltd.), Cat. 16, p.62