FUNERAL COFFIN

made of wood, covered in stucco and entirely painted in polychrome. Rectangular in shape and slightly truncated conical, it depicts Osiris on one side, and Horus and Sobek on another, above Isis’s knots (tyet) and fluted columns, on another a Hemhem crown atop a column with registers, and on the last Anubis and Isis above Isis knots (tyet) and columns with registers. Upper cornice with coloured gadroons.
Ancient Egypt, Ptolemaic Period, 332 to 30 BC.
Height: 54.2 cm - Width: 29.6 cm - Depth: 23.6 cm
(Visible damage and losses, lid missing)