Outer Coffin of Nephthys

Middle Kingdom

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 112

The mummified body of Nephthys (11.150.15c) was buried in a coffin set that included an outer rectangular wooden coffin and an inner mummy-shaped coffin (11.150.15b) made out of cartonnage (layers of linen with plaster). On the outer coffin is her name and her title "mayor’s daughter," but both are a later addition, indicating that the coffin was originally made for another person.

Outer Coffin of Nephthys, Painted sycomore and ziziphus wood, gold leaf

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two coffins from above

Outer Coffin of Nephthys, Painted sycomore and ziziphus wood, gold leaf
Outer Coffin of Nephthys, Painted sycomore and ziziphus wood, gold leaf
Outer Coffin of Nephthys, Painted sycomore and ziziphus wood, gold leaf
Outer Coffin of Nephthys, Painted sycomore and ziziphus wood, gold leaf
Outer Coffin of Nephthys, Painted sycomore and ziziphus wood, gold leaf
Outer Coffin of Nephthys, Painted sycomore and ziziphus wood, gold leaf

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