Coffin lid / model

Description

Model coffin lid of brownish pink pottery with white wash, roughly rectangular with upturned ends, with faint hieroglyphic inscription in ink: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, probably Thebes, late 2nd Intermediate Period, c. 1650 - 1550 BC

Museum reference

A.1956.198 A

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Coffin lid / model

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

2nd Intermediate Period, Ancient Egyptian

Style / Culture

2nd Intermediate Period, Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Ceramic, Ink

Collection place(s)

Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Excavator: Rhind, Alexander Henry, 1833 - 1863

Exhibitions

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

• Egyptian Mummies: Immortality in the Land of the Pharaohs (06 Oct 2007 - 24 Mar 2008)
  Landesmuseum Württenberg

References

Catalogue of the National Museum of Antiquities 1863, No. 126

Murray, M. 1900. Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the National Museum of Antiquities, p. 39 No. 553; p. 59 No. 31

On display

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