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Coffin of Nesykhonsu

c. 976–889 BC

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Egypt, Thebes, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE), Dynasties 21–22

Gessoed and painted sycamore fig

Overall: 70 cm (27 9/16 in.)

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1914.714

Location

107 Egyptian

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Two of Nesykhonsu's titles, "Lady of the House" and "Singer of the Choir of Mut the Great," are written on the outside of the coffin.

Description

Egyptian coffins told stories and illustrated spells to help the deceased transition safely to the afterlife. Inside Nesykhonsu's coffin there are two jackals, one facing right and the other left, near the top. Here, the jackal represents the powerful deity Anubis, the god of the afterlife and embalming.

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Provenance

Thebes, probably Deir el-Bahri.

?-1914

Purchased from Joseph Hassan Ahmed, Luxor, by Lucy Olcott Perkins through Henry W. Kent

1914-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition, June 6-September 20, 1916. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916. No. 87, p. 213

Williams, Caroline Ransom. "The Egyptian Collection in the Museum of Art at Cleveland, Ohio." The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (JEA) 5 (1918). pp. 272-3 journals.sagepub.com

Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L. B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960. p. 637

Cooney, John D. "Siren and Ba, Birds of a Feather." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 55, no. 8 (1968). p. 265, fig. 8 www.jstor.org

Niwinski, Andrzej. 21st Dynasty Coffins from Thebes: Chronological and Typological Studies. Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern, 1988. pp. 134-5, no. 161

Walsem, Reijer van. The Coffin of Djedmonthuiufankh in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden. Leiden: [Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden], 1988. pp. 56, 57n.44, 58, 59n.57, 62, 64-65, 68n.90, 84, 91, 93, 96, 99, 101, 103, 106, 108 (erroneously as Cl 1 [251]), 112-14 and nn. 142-43, 118-19, 124, 126-28, 130n.204, 135, 138, 141n.260, 150n.290, 151n.293, 159n.326, 167n.364, 169, 175, 187, 188n.433, 194, 197n.453, 210, 256, 259, 262, 264, 270n.820, 271-72 and n. 825, 287, 289, 292, 293nn.911-13, 294nn.922 and 924, 297, 304-5, 337-38, 357n.1412, figs. 36, 44, 46, 92, 110, 132, 182, 202, 203, 208, 250, 251, 340, 432, 474

Kozloff, Arielle P., Betsy Morrell Bryan, Lawrence Michael Berman, and Elisabeth Delange. Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1992. p. 334, fig. XI.6

Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 Reproduced: p. 325-335, Color p. 60; Mentioned: p. 325-337

Exhibition history

Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).

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Egypt, Thebes, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE), Dynasties 21–22

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