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Anthropoid Clay Coffin with face lid and crossed arms. An example of a grotesque face lid. Grotesque style coffins have eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, ears, and beard that have been applied separately to the leather-hard clay. This can be done with slipping and scoring that joins two separate pieces of clay together.
Perhaps already in the 13th Dynasty, these anthropoid coffins were decorated all over with a feather design and are no longer placed within an outer, rectangular coffin. These are the first rishi coffins. In the Late 13th Dynasty, the earliest example mentioned in literature is the coffin of the scribe of the great enclosure Neferhotep. [1]
The mummy of Usai is exhibited at the Archaeological Civic Museum (MCA) of Bologna along with Usai's outer box-shaped coffin and inner anthropoid coffin. X-ray analysis revealed the presence of a further faience bead net under the wrapping, as well as an envelope between the legs containing the viscera removed during the mummification. [39] Wah
Anthropoid coffin and sarcophagus of priest Ken-Hor (26th Dynasty, c. 7th century BCE), in the Ägyptisches Museum Berlin. After having been preserved, the mummy was placed into a coffin. Although the coffins that housed the deceased bodies were made simply of wood, they were intricately painted and designed to suit each individual.
When the coffin was opened this stuffing was revealed to be five pillows. [2] [6] As textile remnants from ancient Egypt are relatively rare, and pillows extremely so, [7] the materials used for these will be of great interest. On May 26, 2006, a 42 cm. pink gold leaf anthropoid coffinette was discovered inside the youth coffin, under the pillows.
The following objects are known from the tomb: box shaped outer coffin of Tjesraperet, [3] inner anthropoid coffin and a fragment of the second anthropoid coffin of the wet nurse, stela of Djedkhonsuefankh with gilded figures, a mirror with mirror case, a kohl pot with stick. These objects are now all in Florence.
Over 50 clay anthropoid coffins were found at the site mainly from the 13th and 12th centuries BC. Most are in the typical Egyptian style but some are of a "grotesque" type linked to the Aegean which caused earlier archaeologists to suggest they were of the "sea peoples" which pharaoh Ramses III claimed to have resettled in the region. [25]
A shop window display of coffins at a Polish funeral director's office A casket showroom in Billings, Montana, depicting split lid coffins. A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, for either burial or cremation. Coffins are sometimes referred to as caskets, particularly in American English.