Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · funerary_equipment

Coffin Set of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy

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Description

Third Intermediate Period, mid Dynasty 21, ca. 1000–945 B.C. Wood, gesso, paint, varnish. Outer coffin: L. 203 cm (79 15/16 in.); Inner coffin: L. 191 cm (75 3/16 in.); Mummy board: L. 171.3 cm (67 7/16 in.). From: Tomb of Henettawy F (MMA 59), Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1923–24. Subject: Hieroglyphs, Coffins. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1925.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

The image shows two painted, anthropoid-style Egyptian coffin figures (a main coffin and an inner/nested coffin element) with formal face, wigs, and broad chest decorations.

Two upright, anthropoid coffin objects are photographed against a plain background. Each has a stylized human face with dark painted eyebrows and kohl-lined eyes, a gold/blue nemes-style striped wig, and a broad collar and chest panel with colored inlays and patterned bands. The larger left coffin is fully decorated with stacked registers of painted figures and hieroglyphic-like signs across the lower body panels; the right side shows a similarly painted figure with an open/arched end and the smaller inner coffin element resting within it. Both coffins display extensive use of color (gold/yellow, blue-green, red, black, and white) and decorative geometric and symbolic motifs. No legible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. The Egyptian painted script appears present but is not clear enough in this image to reliably extract individual sign names or specific spell contents. No royal cartouche is clearly readable in the provided view.

funerary Third Intermediate Period (consistent with catalogue) good
Deities unknown (decorative protective iconography; not legible)
Materials wood (coffin structure)gesso (ground implied by painted surface)paintvarnish
Signs unknown painted hieroglyphic signs (indistinct) ×50

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Deities AmunRaAmun-Ra
Materials WoodPaintVarnish

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116443899 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 25.3.182–.184-related tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 590951 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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