Cleveland Museum of Art
Coffin of Nesykhonsu
- Date
- c. 976–889 BCE
- Medium
- gessoed and painted sycamore fig
- Culture
- Egypt, Thebes, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE), Dynasties 21–22
- Department
- Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 94188
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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. 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.
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- Credit line
- Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
- 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
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