Upper part of a coffin lid

The fragment is the upper part of a lid of an anthropoid coffin, broken off or cut off just below the hands.
The face is relatively small and may be female. The heavy, dotted lappet wig is crowned with four fillets: a checkered band with large rectangles, two checkered bands with small rectangles and one with stylized flower petals. The face is protected on the left by a winged uraeus. Probably there was another uraeus on the right. The collar is relatively small. The lappets of the wig end in four horizontal bands: one with stripes, a multicoloured checkered band, a broad one with udjat-eyes, and one with multicoloured dots. The wig is framed by a dotted band and a 'plaited' pattern at the back. The closed, but empty hands are modelled on the surface; they are half covered by broad bracelets in the same pattern as the collar.

Present location	ALLARD PIERSON MUSEUM [06/002] AMSTERDAM
Inventory number	APM 9376
Dating	22ND DYNASTY
Archaeological Site	UNKNOWN
Category	COFFIN/SARCOPHAGUS LID
Material	WOOD; PLASTER
Technique	PAINTED ON STUCCO
Height	66.6 cm
Width	43.9 cm
Depth	17.9 cm

Bibliography

• diversen (M. Appels), Gezicht van de Oudheid (tentoonstellingscatalogus APM), 1982, 20 (nr. 11)
• W.M. van Haarlem, CAA Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, Fasc. IV, 1997, 25-27

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