Cartonnage inner coffin for the mummy of a woman called Isisirdis, lady of the house, daughter of Tjaamunu. The texts on the coffin says that she was the daughter of a brewer and that she was married.
Anthropoid inner bivalve coffin, representing the deceased wearing a tripartite wig, with a fillet, decorated in polychrome. The lid has a broad collar, with superposed crossed red braces. Below this is a winged solar ram, facing left, the tail and legs being flanked by vignettes of Osiris, backed by a white-crowned cobra, adored by one (left) and two (right) female figures.
The next register is dominated by a solar raptor with spread wings, beneath which are disposed the Four Sons of Horus, two under each wing. The succeeding register has a mummified raptor in the centre, flanked by a pair of raptors with wings stretched out in front of them.
Beneath this, an Osiris-fetish extends down the centre of the lid to the ankles, flanked on each side by two registers, as follows:
L.I Thoth and Nephthys.
R.I Horus and Isis.
L.II Ram-headed Re-Horakhty and cobra-headed deity.
R.II Thouris and crocodile-headed deity.
The upper surface of the feet has five columns of text, flanked by a pair of recumbent jackals. The foot-end is in the form a pedestal.
The top of the head of the lid and trough is decorated with XXXXXX. Polychrome stripes extend along the sides of the trough, whose back-column bears a djed-pillar atop a tjet-sign, with a sun-disk with a pair of cobras, with pendant ankh-signs, plus the phrase nb-pt [Lord of the Sky] above it. On the back of both shoulders is the phrase tp-Dr.f [Upon his Mountain], below which extends a lotus-headed sceptre, topped with a plumed solar disk, resting on a shen-sign and with a three pairs of menat-symbols hanging from it. Below the sceptres are bearded snakes and finally was-sceptres with ankhs on top.
The lid was fixed to the trough by four tongues on each side of the fitting into corresponding slots in the trough.
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