False lid of the coffin of Khonsumes

From the Museo Egizio record

The streaked wig and closed hands of this coffin are iconographic features distinguishing men from women. The texts mention the name and the title of the owner of this coffin, who is indeed a man: Khonsumes, a wab-priest. In this period, the decoration of the lower half of the lid and the mummy board were often subdivided into squares arranged on either side of one or more columns of text running along the vertical axis. This is known as a “table pattern”. The general style of the figures is very similar to that of the coffin of Tabakenkhonsu, so much so that it is believed both coffins might have been produced by the same workshop and may consequently both be dated to the middle of the 21th Dynasty. The inscriptions added later and the artificial lengthening of the two parts of the coffin seem to indicate that the inner coffin and its mummy board were not originally commissioned by the owner, but simply readapted. Dimensions: 13 cm x 37 cm x 170 cm. Museum location: Museum / Floor 1 / Room 08 / Showcase 03. Image views available: 5.