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MM 13940 :: coffin, lid

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Painted image of the Goddess Nut on the inside of the lid. She is standing on an elevated standard with her hands raised.

The lid of an anthropoid coffin, wearing a tripartite wig, with no hands and decorated in polychrome. The face is painted red, the wig green, with yellow and red banded terminals. A very deep broad collar reaches from below the shoulders to just below the waist, springing from a pair of very large raptor-form terminals. Below this is a keeling figure of Isis, facing left, with wings extending upwards towards the edge of the lid. Below are three registers, respectively containing:

Anubis bending over the mummy; three squatting deities; five vertical bands, reaching from the knees to the ankles. The upper register is flanked by a pair of wadjet-eyes, below each of which is, at 90 degrees, a squatting deity (ape-headed on the left, human-headed on the right) and a winged cobra, its body stretching down to the ankles.

The feet have been extensively re-worked to change them from the form current during the New Kingdom, to the pedestalled form that first appears under Takelot III and continues into Roman times. Tenon-sockets indicate that the outer parts of the feet were provided in separate pieces.

The interior is painted black, with a figure of the goddess Nut in yellow outline, facing left, with a solar disk containing her name on her head.

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MM 13940 :: coffin, lid

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