Fragment Of Wooden Coffin Lid
Object Details
- Donor Name
- Cpl Usmc Richard D. Rapier
- From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Coffin fragment, 1200-1000 B.C. Egyptians often depicted the sky goddess Nut in the coffin so the deceased's spirit could cross the night sky like the sun god to be reborn in the morning. In the Osiris legend, the dead king ascended to his mother, Nut, in the heavens where she renewed his mummified body.
- Record Last Modified
- 2 Dec 2015
- Specimen Count
- 50
- Culture
- Ancient Egyptian
- Accession Date
- 11 Jan 1963
- Accession Number
- 247749
- USNM Number
- A436024-0
- Object Type
- Coffin
- Place
- Minna, Lower Egypt, Egypt, Africa
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Archaeology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8189637
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/32f7f19b5-a5d2-4ea5-9036-40c6dccecc6a
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