Coffin

Description

Anthropoid coffin of the estate overseer Khnumhotep, son of Nebtu, made of wood painted white with three horizontal yellow bands and gilded face: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Egypt, Deir Rifa, Middle Kingdom, second half of the 12th Dynasty, c.1847-1808 BC

Museum reference

A.1907.713.5

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Coffin

Production information

Unknown
Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

Middle Kingdom, Ancient Egyptian

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Wood, Marble, Wood, Gold

Collection place(s)

Deir Rifa, Middle Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Depicted: Khnumhotep [Estate overseer]

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

Petrie, W.M.F., (1907) Gizeh and Rifeh', (London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt).12-13[27] & pl. XI

ROYAL SCOTTISH MUSEUM (1908) A Guide to the Collections (Edinburgh: His Majesty’s Stationery Office).p.18

WARD, E (1912.) Guide to the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities (Edinburgh: His Majesty’s Stationery Office). 39 & pl. V

SCHMIDT, V (1919). Levende og døde i det gamle Ægypten: Album til ordnung af Sarkofager, Mumiekister, Mumiehylstre o. lign (Copenhagen: J. Frimots Forlag). p. 87[455]

B Porter & R B Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings, V, Upper Egypt: Sites (1937) (Oxford: Clarendon Press/Griffith Institute), 3

Manley, B.and Dodson, A. LIFE EVERLASTING: NATIONAL MUSEUMS SCOTLAND COLLECTION OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN COFFINS, Edinburgh : NMSE Publishing (2007), cat.2, pp. 17-19

Grajetzki, Wolfram (2014) 'The Tomb of Khnumhotep at Rifeh' in A Good Scribe and an Exceedingly Wise Man: Studies in Honour of W.J. Tait, 100-101.

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

Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom, Version 3 (name 10593; accessed February 24, 2022), https://pnm.uni-mainz.de/3/inscription/10593 doi:10.5281/zenodo.1411391

Schmidt, V (2022 [2019]), Sarcophagi, Mummy Coffins, and Mummy Cases in Ancient Egypt: A Typological Atlas, transl. Jonker, Z (Albany, NY: Ancient Egyptian Heritage & Archaeology Fund), nos. 392-3, p. 74 [88], no. 455, p 87 [101].

On display

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