Coffin / model

Description

Base of model coffin of Piay in wood anthropoid form, with a painted yellow face and the rest predominantly black: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, c.1539-1292 BC

Museum reference

A.1956.197

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Coffin / model

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

New Kingdom
18th Dynasty

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Wood

Collection place(s)

Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Depicted: Piay
Rhind, Alexander Henry, 1833 - 1863

Exhibitions

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

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

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

References

Catalogue of the National Museum of Antiquities 1863, No. 127

Murray, M. 1900. Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the National Museum of Antiquities, p. 38 No. 551; p. 59 No. 30

Egyptian Mummies: Immortality in the Land of the Pharaohs: Landesmuseum Wurttemberg, Stuttgart, 2007, pp118, cat. 105

On display

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world cultures, ancient egypt rediscovered