NME 003 :: Coffin
- Object description
Mummy coffin for the woman Isisirdis.
Anthropoid middle coffin, representing the deceased wearing a tripartite wig, with a fillet surrounding a sun-disk with two cobras on top of the head, and a broad collar, all painted in polychrome. Below the collar, the lid is primarily bare wood, with decoration restricted to a single column of text extending down the centre to the tip of the feet.
The lid was fixed to the trough by four tongues on each side of the fitting into corresponding slots in the trough. The latter is again of bare wood, with the a single band of text running from the top of the head, along the upper third of the sides, to the foot; the hieroglyphs are oriented as though the coffin were standing upright on its foot. The interior of the trough has a part-polychrome full-face image of Nut, her name above her head, her forearms drawn on the side-walls and her feet on the interior of the footboard.
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