The bottom screne shows the goddess Nephthys worshipping the sun-god Horus, on the left. On the right, the goddess Isis is worshipping Osiris. Above this, the dead person is shown either side of a winged solar disc. He is dressed as a priest with a shaven head. Graeco-Roman 332 BC-AD 395.

End panel from the box of a rectangular coffin. Painted wooden panel with number 6 and winged scarab. With no. 6863 on side . Lower section shows two male seated figures (Horus and Osiris) with two females (Nephyths and Isis). From Tuna el-Gebel. The freize includes Horus, Isis and Osiris. The Upper scene shows the deceased restored to life and worshipping the solar disc. W1042 and W1042a possibly belong to the same coffin. This is presumably from a box coffin which would have had a vaulted lid and four corner posts. Corner posts first appear in the 25th Dynasty). Such coffins tended to be outer coffins. See a similar coffin in Kurth, Dieter 1990. Der Sarg der Teuris: eine Studie zum Totenglauben im romerzeitlichen Agypten. The winged scarab also appears on a Roman Period Coffin of the 2nd century AD from Qurna, Thebes belonging to Cleopatra (EA6706).

Collection

Egypt Centre, University of Swansea

Inventory Number

3543699

Title

The bottom screne shows the goddess Nephthys worshipping the sun-god Horus, on the left. On the right, the goddess Isis is worshipping Osiris. Above this, the dead person is shown either side of a winged solar disc. He is dressed as a priest with a shaven head. Graeco-Roman 332 BC-AD 395.

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