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

Outer Coffin of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy

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Description

Third Intermediate Period, late Dynasty 21, ca. 1000–945 B.C. Wood, gesso, paint, varnish. L. 203 cm (79 15/16 in.). From: Tomb of Henettawy F (MMA 59), Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1923–24. Subject: Hieroglyphs, Anubis, Horus, Isis, Coffins, D21-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.

Painted, decorated outer coffin shaped as a standing anthropoid figure, shown front-facing against a plain background.

The image depicts an anthropoid coffin panel/outer coffin with a fully front view. The head is human with a black wig/side tripartite wig texture and a gold, banded nemes-like headdress featuring a central stripe and uraeus-like element at the brow; the face is painted with detailed features (arched eyebrows, almond-shaped eyes, and a small mouth). A broad painted collar and striped bands cover the upper chest. The figure’s hands are depicted crossed over the body holding a small emblem-like object at the wrists. The lid/upper section includes decorative framing and an alternating pattern of colored bands. The lower register is densely filled with painted funerary scenes and hieroglyphic labels in multiple rectangular compartments; small standing figures and offerings are visible within some compartments. Specific individual hieroglyphs are too small/blurred to transcribe reliably at this resolution. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is legible. No modern museum labels or watermarks appear on the artifact surface.

funerary Third Intermediate Period (as catalogued) good
Deities Amun-Re (invocation implied by title; not legible in this image)
Materials wood (coffin form)gessopaintvarnish
Signs multiple painted hieroglyphic labels in rectangular registers (unreadable in image resolution) ×40

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Deities AmunRaAmun-Ra

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q29385937 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 25.3.182a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 548264 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.