A mummy coffin made for a man but without a name written on it.
An anthropoid outer coffin, decorated in polychrome on a yellow background, varnished.
The lid depicts the deceased with arms crossed at the breast and wearing a tripartite wig with a fillet around the temples; he has a curved beard that may have been added during modern restoration. A broad collar with raptor-headed terminals extends from the shoulders to the crossed arms, with a pectoral winged solar scarab directly above the wrists. The ‘sleeve’ of the right arm bears vignettes of a squatting figure of Maat, protected by a solar raptor and winged solar cobra and of a kneeling figure in front of a pair of offering stands. The left ‘sleeve’ has a reviving figure lying on a bed, protected by a winged wadjet-eye.
Below the crossed arms is a solar scarab, protected by crowned cobras and flanked by images of the seated Osiris with a wadjet-eye and a winged goddess before him. Below this register is a kneeling winged figure of Nut, facing left and protected by a pair of winged cobras. She is flanked on Osiris-fetishes.
Beneath Nut, a series of registers, flanked by columns of text, occupy the centre-line of the lid, reaching the foot, as follows:
C.I Winged solar scarab in a shrine;
C.II Four wadjet-eyes and four cobras;
C.III Winged sun-disk;
C.IV Winged solar scarab in a shrine;
C.V Pair of wadjet-eyes, flanking a sun-disk and above four cobras, arranged around a kherp-sceptre;
C.VI Winged sun-disk;
C.VII Solar scarab, flanked by kneeling solar human-headed figures, in a shrine.
This central panel is flanked by a series of mirror-image registers, as follows:
RL.I Deceased offering to a seated Osiris and a goddess, inside a djed-pillared shrine.
RL.II Deceased offering to a raptor and crowned cobra, inside a djed-pillared shrine.
RL.III Deceased offering to a [damaged] black kneeling figure, inside a djed-pillared shrine.
RL.IV Jackal of a podium, facing a winged solar cobra.
These registers are divided from each other, in whole or part, by lateral bands of text.
The lid is edged from shoulder to foot, and around the foot, by texts, in red and unfinished around the foot. The foot-end itself is adorned with a large Tit-sign, flanked adoring west-signs.
The lid was fixed to the trough by three tongues on each side of the fitting into corresponding slots in the trough. The upper margin of the latter bears a band of alternating cobras and maat-feathers. The head-end bears a large Tit-sign, flanked by pairs of text-columns, the sides of the head by the blue and yellow striping of the wig. The foot-end is blank. Beyond this, the right side of the trough is divided into five panels, the latter five in the form of shrines, with two columns of text between each. From the head they contain:
R.I Deceased offering to seated Osiris and standing Isis.
R.II Imseti (human-headed).
R.III Hapy (ape-headed).
R.IV Duamutef (dog-headed).
R.V Qebehsenuef (raptor-headed).
The left side is divided into six panels:
L.I Deceased offering to seated Osiris and standing Nephthys.
L.II Deceased holding lamp.
L.III Imseti (human-headed).
L.IV Hapy (ape-headed).
L.V Duamutef (dog-headed).
L.VI Qebehsenuef (raptor-headed).
The floor of the trough is painted red and is adorned with a quasi-anthropoid djed-pillar, with a stole, arms and sceptres, its lower part flanked by west-signs. The walls of the interior are plain, and painted yellow.
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