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Description: | This wooden coffin fragment is decorated with paint in the colours of blue, red, and black. The piece includes hieroglyphics on the right and left sides. The design is common for funerary objects, including two wedjat eyes, representing the sun and the moon. Below the eyes is a representation of a false door, meant to symbolise the threshold between life and death. On their side if the door are brightly coloured geometric designs inspired by textiles. John Garstang's excavations at Beni Hassan, Middle Egypt, 1902-3.
During the Middle Kingdom (c.2055-1650 BC) tombs were cut into the limestone hills next to the Nile river to house the bodies of the rulers of that Nome. Shaft graves are also present for lesser ranking officials and workers. The higher ranking tombs includes that of local rulers Amenemhet, Bakt, Kheti, Khnumhotep I and Netjernackt. There are 39 tombs in all.
Accession number: NCM 1904-473 | Subjects: | death woodwork EGYPTIAN | Temporal: | 2600BC-2200BC | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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