Coffin of a woman from Gamhud

Classification

anthropoid coffin ; tomb equipment

Culture

Egyptian (culture)

Dimensions

197 x 54 x 66 cm

Date

Ptolemaic Period or early Roman Period (2nd–1st century B.C.)

Period

Ptolemaic period (323–30); Roman Imperial Period (Egypt, 30 B.C. – 395 A.D.)

Material

sycomore fig

Iconography

wig ; pedestal ; ribbon ; Maat feather ; usekh collar ; Isis ; Canopic jar ; bier ; mummy ; zig-zag lines ; disk motif ; Anubis

Inscription

hieroglyphs ; Classical Egyptian

Production place

Egypt

Findspot

Gamhud

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Egyptian Art

Provenance

Budapest, Hungarian National Museum

Inventory

51.1998/1–2

ID

Hyp-2795

References

Kóthay–Liptay, Egyiptomi Gyűjtemény, 140; Kóthay–Liptay, Egyptian Artefacts, 148

Year of discovery

1907