Coffin
- Holding institution:
- Penn Museum
- Data provider:
- Penn Museum
- Title:
- Coffin
- Date:
- 305-30 BC
-306
-29 - Description:
- Painted wooden coffin of Djed-Hapi (earlier read as Sakhpimau). The coffin has an idealized head of the deceased wearing a long black wig and a false beard. The coffin is decorated with a wide collar with 9 horizontal bands of floral and beaded imagery with falcon-headed terminals. Below the collar is a scene of a mummy on a lion-headed bier with mourning goddesses (Isis and Nephthys) on either side. Below this is a funerary text of five columns invoking the god Anubis. The names of his parents are also given. his father was called Petosiris and his mother's name was Sermuthepet.
- Type:
- Coffin
- Type (Narrower):
- Funerary Objects
- Type (Broader):
- Object
- Subject:
- Isis|Nephthys|Falcon Heads|Mummy|Bier
- Coverage:
- Ptolemaic
- Geographic region:
- Egypt
Dendereh - Time period:
- Ptolemaic Period
Thirty-Third Dynasty - Provenance:
- Gift of Ethelbert Watts, 1898
- Medium:
- Wood
Pigment - Identifier:
- 26934
- Source:
- E3413B
AES91A