Coffin Lid
- Hilton Price Number
- HP7
- Object Type
- Tomb equipment, Coffin/sarcophagus/cartonnage, Coffin/sarcophagus lid
- Material
- Wood (Sycamore)
- Provenance
- Egypt, Thebes/Luxor, Deir el-Bahri
- Measurements
- Height: 5' 9"
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Culture
- Egyptian
- Animal
- Falcon/hawk
- Divine Name
- Isis | Nephthys | Nut | Osiris | Re
Licensing details
- Description
-
Coffin Lid, the inner lid of a coffin of a Priestess of Ȧmen-Rā. The mask is brightly coloured yellow, with a black head covering and a chaplet on the top; the arms are folded, and the hands are fixed on; it is decorated with a large figure of Nut kneeling, and figures of Osiris, Rā, Isis, Nephthys, hawks, utchats, &c. It is a handsomely painted lid, some of the figures slightly in relief. There is no name upon it, but the sentence [hieroglyphs] is repeated many times. H. 5 ft. 9 in. Sycamore wood. Dêr el-Baḥarî.
- Bibliography
-
Price, Frederick George Hilton (1897) A catalogue of the Egyptian antiquities in the possession of F. G. Hilton Price. London: Quaritch. Anonymous (1911). Catalogue of the important and extensive collection of Egyptian antiquities, the property of the late F. G. Hilton-Price, Esq. [...] : which will be sold by auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge [...] on Wednesday, 12th July, 1911, and two following days, and on Monday, the 17th of July, and four following days. London: Davy.
- Buyer
- Fenton
- Former Owner
- Frederick George Hilton Price (1842–1909)
- Language
- Egyptian
- Script
- Hieroglyphic
- Last modified: 28 Jul 2021