Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)

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Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin),

1st century BCE–1st century CE

Egyptian
Late Ptolemaic Period to Early Roman period, 304–30 BCE
y1959-212

Information

Title
Anthropoid coffin, containing the mummy of a priest from Chemmis or Panoplis (Akhmin)
Dates

1st century BCE–1st century CE

Medium
Painted wood and gesso
Dimensions
37.0 x 183.0 x 49.0 cm (14 9/16 x 72 1/16 x 19 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frederic C. Penfield in 1908
Object Number
y1959-212
Place Excavated

Africa, Egypt, Akhmim

Culture
Egyptian (ancient)
Period
Greco-Roman
Type
funerary art, funerary objects, mummy cases, mummy portraits
Materials
wood, gesso
Subject
priests, running ornament, wings (visual works components)

Acquired in Egypt in the late 1800s; given by Frederic C. Penfield to the Old Collection at Guyot Hall in 1908; entered into the Museum in 1959

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