Anthropomorphic cover of a coffin decorated with man wearing tripartite striped wig and broad collar with falcon-head terminals, body showing sky goddess NUT with widespread wings at top of vertical band with hieroglyphs reading:
‘...O my mother Nut, stretch yourself over me, that you may place me among the imperishable stars which are in you, that I may not die...’;
three horizontal bands with hieroglyphs, inbetween kneeling figures raising their hands in mourning.
Ex priv. coll. E.R., Netherlands, acq. from Royal Athena Galleries, New York 2007; before, priv. coll. Paris, 1950s, thence by descent.
H. 182 cm; feet missing, some repaint and repair, otherwise intact; mounted on stand.
New Kingdom, 18th Dyn., c. 1570-1293 BC
