Anthropoid coffin of an Amun-priestess
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Fragment of a coffin

Cartonnage coffin lid from Akhmim

Classification
anthropoid coffin; tomb equipment
Culture
Graeco-Egyptian (culture)
Dimensions
195 × 58 × 35.5 cm
Date
1st century BC –1st century AD
Period
Graeco-Roman Period (Egypt)
Material
gilded cartonnage
Iconography
male figure; mantle; tunic; sandals; rosette; uraeus; diadem; mummiform netherworld deity
Production place
Panopolis (Akhmim)
Findspot
Panopolis (Akhmim)?
Present location
Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Egyptian Art
Provenance
Szombathely, Premonstratensian Secondary School; Szombathely, Savaria Museum
Inventory
51.638
ID
Hyp-6530
References
Liptay, in VHK 2011/2; Petrik 2011, 22–23; Liptay, in BullMusHong 119 (2014)
Trails
The polyphony of Roman art
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