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Anthropoid Coffin of a Woman

New Kingdom
ca. 1473–1458 BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 116
This coffin belonged to an anonymous elderly woman who was interred on the hillside of Sheikh Abd el Qurna in a chamber constructed of rough rock slabs. Both box and lid are crudely hollowed out of two sections of a sycomore log, and the painted decoration, consisting of a blue and yellow wig cover, a broad collar, and uninscribed body bands, is rather clumsy.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Anthropoid Coffin of a Woman
  • Period: New Kingdom
  • Dynasty: Dynasty 18
  • Reign: Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III
  • Date: ca. 1473–1458 BCE
  • Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, below the Tomb of Senenmut (TT 71), burial 2, MMA excavations, 1935–36
  • Medium: Wood, gesso, paint
  • Dimensions: H. 195 cm (76 3/4 in.); W. 54.5 cm (21 7/16 in.); D. 70 cm (27 9/16 in.)
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1936
  • Object Number: 36.3.184a, b
  • Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art

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