Inner Coffin of the Sistrum-Player of Amun Shebenwen
Third Intermediate Period
Shebenwen, a sistrum-player of Amen-Re and the daughter of Nedjhor, had an unusually fine wooden inner coffin. The delicate features of her face are framed by a shingle-patterned wig topped by a wide fillet. On the lower part of the fragmentary lid an elegantly painted scene shows her being led by the ibis-headed god Thoth before Osiris, ruler of the Netherworld. The long inscription beneath this scene is the text of the "Negative Confession" from the Book of the Dead (Chapter 125). Shebenwen appears again on the interior as a small standing mummy, above a large figure of the sky-goddess Nut.
This coffin, along with fragments of her outer qersu coffin, intermediary anthropoid coffin, and cartonnage coffin, was discovered in a cache of coffins on one of the terraces of the 18th Dynasty temple of Hatshepsut.
