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Dangerous protective demons on the coffin of Horaawesheb. Right to left, a lion-headed demon, an eye of Horus beneath his raised arm; a seated crocodile god; a kneeling man with a turtle for a head; a ram-headed god; and a shaven-headed man holding a gazelle. IIRC the gazelle, as a desert dweller, represents dangerous forces which the man has control of. Everybody but the gazelle guy has a knife. Horaaweseheb is well-protected by this parade of demons.

Where: British Museum

When: Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty

#Ancient Egypt #coffin #lion god #British Museum #Third Intermediate Period #22nd Dynasty #Horaawesheb

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On Horaawesheb's coffin, between a band of hieroglyphs and a red-white-and-blue frieze, right to left: two shave-headed figures each holding two lizards, Anubis holding a snake, and a man holding two snakes. Each of these figures crouches in an odd position, as if they sat down and then someone took their chair away. The lizards and snakes represent their control over dangerous forces. Next there's an entire fish sitting on a plinth; a mummiform man from the waist up; and the Hathor cow coming out of the mountains.

Where: British Museum

When: Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty

#Ancient Egypt #coffin #Anubis #Hathor #lizards #British Museum #Third Intermediate Period #22nd Dynasty #Horaawesheb

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Multiple afterlife scenes one side of the coffin of Tanetnahereret, including the double staircase scene with the great serpent and Hepet-Hot protecting Osiris. (I usually only post closeups of these yellow coffins, so here's what a whole one looks like!)

Where: Louvre

When: Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty

#Ancient Egypt #coffin #Hepet Hor #Louvre #Third Intermediate Period #21st Dynasty #Tanetnahereret

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On his Book of the Dead, Maiherpri uses a fork to pin down a serpent, while he spears its head. He's depicted with dark brown skin and curly black hair, and wears white finery. The vignette is surrounded by hieroglyphs.

Where: Egyptian Museum, Cairo

When: New Kingdom

#Ancient Egypt #papyrus #Book of the Dead #Egyptian Museum Cairo #New Kingdom #Maiherpri

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On Padiamun's coffin, The Devourer appears in the form of a dog, sitting at Thoth's feet as he records the result of the judgement. The deceased kneels behind Thoth, holding his heart. Anubis and Maat stand under the scales, and a large snake protecting Osiris in his pavilion rears up in front of Maat. Behind the pavilion we can see Imsety and Hapy, two of the sons of Horus.

Where: Liverpool World Museum

When: Third Intermediate Period, 25th Dynasty

#Ancient Egypt #coffin #Osiris #Anubis #Maat #Imsety #Hapy #The Devourer #Thoth #Liverpool World Museum #Third Intermediate Period #25th Dynasty #Padiamun

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On the coffin of Oudjarenes, Horus offers his father Osiris the was sceptre with a djed column and an ankh on the tip. (Should we read this as "life, strength, health"?)

[An Egyptian coffin. On the right, Osiris is enthroned, and Horus is holding out a very long was sceptre topped by a djed column on top of which is an ankh; the ankh touches Osiris's nose. Behind Horus is a ram on a standard, wearing the double feather crown. The goddess Nut spreads her wings over the chest of the coffin; she holds an ankh in one hand and a ship's sail in the other, and there's a sun-disc on her head with her name in it.]

Where: Louvre

When: Late Period, 26th Dynasty

#Ancient Egypt #coffin #Osiris #Horus #Nut #Louvre #Late Period #26th Dynasty #Oudjarenes

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A satirical papyrus showing a lady mouse being served wine by a cat while another cat dresses her hair, a third cares for her baby, and a fourth fans her. The mice have hilarious huge, round ears.

Where: Egyptian Museum Cairo

When: New Kingdom

#Ancient Egypt #papyrus #Ancient Egyptian cats #Egyptian Museum Cairo #New Kingdom

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The coffin of Baketenhor, with a spectacular ram-headed falcon spreading its wings over her chest. Wings are black, green, and red, the ram's face is dark green, and it has a yellow sundisc on its head, above which sits a small figure of Maat.

Where: Natural History Society of Northumbria

When: Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty

ETA: Here's a hair-raising documentary about Baketenhor's mummy.

#Ancient Egypt #coffin #Natural History Society of Northumbria #Third Intermediate Period #22nd Dynasty #Baketenhor

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On a yellow coffin, a black scarab with black wings lifts a pale green sundisc. Below is a frieze of black upside-down lotuses. To left and right stand two images of Osiris, green-skinned, wearing green white crowns.

Where: Egyptian Museum Cairo

When: Third Intermediate Period

#Ancient Egypt #coffin #yellow coffin #Osiris #Egyptian Museum Cairo #Third Intermediate Period

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Detail of the inner coffin of Nepawershefyt.

[On a yellow coffin, Nephthys kneels on the hieroglyph for gold, her arms raised above her head. On her left is Imsety and on her right, Duamutef, both as yellow mummies with green stripes. The goddess is green and so is Duamutef's jackal head.]

Where: Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge

When: Third Intermediate Period, 21/22 Dynasty

#Ancient Egypt #coffin #Nephthys #Imsety #Duamutef #sons of Horus #Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge #Third Intermediate Period #21st Dynasty #22nd Dynasty #Nepawershefyt

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I can't tell you much about this small fragment of a coffin, except that it contains a seated deity with a snake's head, bearded, topped by a feather. There's a green and red length of cloth sort of balanced on his knee. He's painted in red, green, and gold, against a white background.

Where: Everhart Museum, Scranton, Pennsylvania

When: ?

#Ancient Egypt #coffin #snake god #Everhart Museum Scranton Pennsylvania

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On the coffin of Soter, a black scarab with four wings, four heads, and a crown made from wavy rams' horns and a maat feather. My guess is this complex figure is Banebdjedet, the god which represents the four souls of the sun god.

Where: British Museum

When: Roman Egypt

#Ancient Egypt #coffin #Banebdjedet #British Museum #Roman Egypt #Soter

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A detail from the coffin of Pa-debehu-Aset. The sun god appears as a black scarab with colourful wings and a ram's head with wavy horns, above which is a red sundisc. The scarab's hind legs also stand on a sundisc.

Where: Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester

When: Ptolemaic Egypt

#Ancient Egypt #coffin #Memorial Art Gallery University of Rochester #Ptolemaic Egypt #Padebehuaset

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The coffin of Tentkhonsu or Tenet-Khonsu.

[The side of a yellow coffin, painted in green, red, and black. Right to left: a mummiform god with a green donkey head; the deceased, red, making an offering; a green goddess with a green sundisc, holding an atef crown; a green Thoth, wearing an Atef crown; in a pavilion, red Osiris with crook, flail, and green-coloured white crown; green Isis; green goddess with green sundisc, presumably Nephthys.]

Where: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

When: Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty

#Ancient Egypt #coffin #yellow coffin #Thoth #Osiris #Isis #Smithsonian #Third Intermediate Period #21st Dynasty #Tenetkhonsu

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[A rectangular fragment of an unpainted coffin. At left, four naked gods with hands raised in worship; Heh and Nun have frog heads; Naunet and Hehet have uraeus heads. All appear male despite their labels. At right, a solar barque with multiple passengders, including a god with his arms raised above his head, holding a sun disc containing a scarab.]

Where: Hermitage Museum St Petersburg

When: Roman Egypt

#Ancient Egypt #coffin #Heh #Nun #Naunet #Hehet #Ogdoad #barque #Hermitage Museum St Petersburg #Roman Egypt

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[The white interior of a coffin lid, mostly illustrated in black ink. Two goddesses stand on either side of the pole of the Abydos reliquary, supporting it. Hieroglyphs run down the pole. Between each goddess and the pole is a ram on a standard, held up by an ankh with arms (left) and a was sceptre with arms (right). The base of the pole is protected by winged mummiform lions. Above each goddess Wepwawet stands on his shedshed symbol.]

What a great, complex diagram; despite the dearth of colour Ameneminet got his money's worth. These goddesses aren't labelled, but it would make sense if they were Isis and Nephthys.

#Ancient Egypt #coffin #Wepwawet #Louvre #Third Intermediate Period #22nd Dynasty #Ameneminet

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From the coffin of Ameneminet. I glanced at an article in French about these "seahorses" on coffins -- I'll have to take another look.

THOMAS, Caroline. Le cheval-serpent, un curieux génie funéraire Revue d'Égyptologie 64, 2013

Where: Louvre

When: Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty

#Ancient Egypt #coffin #horse serpent #Louvre #Third Intermediate Period #22nd Dynasty #Ameneminet