Coffin Lid
31-28-275B
From: Egypt | Meydum
Curatorial Section: Egyptian
| Object Number | 31-28-275B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Egypt | Meydum |
| Section | Egyptian |
| Materials | Wood | Pigment |
| Technique | Painted |
| Iconography | Face | Beard | Hand | Pectoral | Scarab | Sun Disk | Gods | Scepter | Crown |
| Description | Wooden lid with modelled face with a projecting beard and hands. The hands are crossed on the chest, the left one clenched, the right one flat. Pectoral crudely colored in red, white, and blue, outlined in black. Between the hands is a scarab with a sun disc held by the the two back legs. Underneath the pectoral are five gods, each holding a was sceptre and wearing a double plumed crown resting on rams' horns. |
| Length | 190.5 cm |
| Width | 54.61 cm |
| Credit Line | The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Meydum; Alan Rowe, 1931 |
| Other Number | 31-11-28 - Field No SF |
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