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Description: | Painted sycamore wood box of Perpau. The box is rectangular, four-legged with detachable gabled lid. The lid is painted in geometric patterns in red, black and white with a black and white border. There are two mushroom-shaped knobs, one on the lid and the other on the right side of the box, which were used to secure the chest with rope and then sealed. On one lid panel there is one horizontal row of hieroglyphs facing to the right, in dedication to Osiris. The two short sides of the box depict a typical western Asiatic scene of rampant gazelles eating from a Mitannian-type sacred tree with an upside-down palm tree at the two upper corners of the scene. On one side, the gazelles are shown nursing fawns. On the front of the box is an offering scene; Perpau, holding a lotus in his left hand, is seated on a lion-legged chair in front of an offering table laden with offerings. On the other side of the table stands Perpau's son Patjuy and daughters Tjat and Qeden. Tjar and Kedy are both shown wearing a long diaphanous dress and long wig, holding a lotus in her right hand. Perpau, Patjuy and the offering table stand on a dais and are painted in black. On the back of the box is another offering scene; Perpau and his wife Ady, both holding a lotus, are seated on a lion-legged chair in front of an offering table laden with offerings. The chair and the offering table are on top of a dais, partially covered with a reed mat. On the other side of the table stands Perpau's son Newenef and daughters Tja, Ta-khat and Tata. The four females hold a lotus in their right hands and are shown wearing long diaphanous dresses and long wigs, as in the other offering scene. Perpau is shown wearing a long bag-tunic over a short kilt and Enwenef wears a short kilt. Above the offering table is a standard offering formula (hotep-di-nesw) naming the deceased and members of his family. Description Source: Birch, S. 1880. Catalogue of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities at Alnwick Castle, London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, p. 194-196 | Subjects: | funerary costume box/chest/casket furniture man box | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Perpau | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=25... | Go to resource |
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