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Coffin and Cover of Princess Mayet Middle KingdomThebes (Deir el-Bahri), Egypt

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Description

Object Label: Excavated in 1921, Princess Mayet’s tomb was one of six subterranean shrines dedicated to women in king Montuhotep II’s mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri, Thebes. Five of these women held the titles of king’s wife and priestess of Hathor, but Mayet’s objects did not include any titles. Mayet died as a child, and her relationship to Montuhotep II is uncertain. Her coffin—likely made for someone else—was reinscribed with her name, Mayet, meaning “female cat.” The inscriptions painted on the box include an offering formula that lists the one thousand each of bread, beer, meat, fowl, and linen she will need in the afterlife. Magical eyes painted on one long side allow Mayet to see her offerings. Caption: Coffin and Cover of Princess Mayet, ca. 2008–1957 B.C.E.. Wood (Mediterranean cypress - Cupressus sempervirens, Sycamore fig - ficus sycomorus, tamarisk - Tamarix sp.), pigment, 19 × 15 1/2 × 72 in. (48.3 × 39.4 × 182.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 52.127a-b. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.

Connections

Found at Thebes
Deities Hathor
Materials Painted Wood

Cross-references (3)

  • BKM-Accession 52.127a-b tier-2
  • BKM-Object 3575 tier-2
  • PNM-Object pnm:83899548 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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