Coffin Board of a Woman

Coffin Board of a Woman

Third Intermediate Period - Late Period, Dynasty 22 - Dynasty 25, ca. 943-655 BC

Egypt

Wood, gesso, pigment
74 cm High x 50 cm

2018.010.410

A polychromed wooden upper end of a coffin lid. The owner wears the vulture headdress, a circlet, and a blue and yellow striped tripartite wig with lappets ending in a yellow band. Above her forehead is a winged scarab and she wears a broad collar. Below, her two-fisted hands are painted yellow, emerging from within the vestment. Between her hands is a column of text with the offering formula, surmounted by the recumbent form of Anubis holding his insignia. Coffin lids such as these date to the 22nd-25th Dynasties, and are common in and around the Faiyum area of Egypt.

The coffin lid was purchased by Georges Ricard for the Senusret Collection on 2 October 1975 in Cannes, France, Ventes aux enchères: Collection of M. X. et à divers, lot number 134.

Gift of the Georges Ricard Foundation

Parallels and References:
Bolton, UK. Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, no. 1892.7.2.
New Orleans Museum of Art, 1977, no. 9004-06.
Stockholm, Medelhavsmuseet, NME 1971.005.

Other examples in:
Taylor, John H. 2009. “Coffins as evidence for a "north-south divide" in the 22nd-25th Dynasties.” In Broekman, G. P. F., R. J. Demarée, and O. E. Kaper (eds), pp. 380-385. The Libyan Period in Egypt. Historical and cultural studies into the 21st-24th Dynasties: proceedings of a conference at Leiden University, 25-27 October 2007. Egyptologische Uitgaven 23. Leuven: Peeters.