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Amenhotep I Deified

Reproduction of the interior decoration of a coffin belonging to an unknown person who lived during the Third Intermediate Period, c. 1070-945 BC.

Amenhotep I Deified

Most of the interior is taken up with the image of King Amenhotep I in the guise of the mummiform Osiris, who is attended by a priest in a panther skin, a human-headed ba-bird representing the spirit of the coffin's owner, and a crouching mourning woman.

Reproduction Details

Object Type

Date

Findspot

Current Location

People Depicted

Deities Depicted

Art Ref

Coffin

Dynasty 21

Theban Necropolis

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Amenhotep I

Osiris

DP045

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