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Nakhtefmut was a priest in Karnak around 900 BCE and this is a close up of a scene on the cartonnage coffin that he was buried in. It was found in the Ramesseum at the end of the 19th Century CE, and given to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge where it now lives.

Cartonnage is a sort of papier-mâché, made of scraps of linen or papyrus stuck together with plaster. In this case it was formed into a single piece mummiform coffin which had a slit up the back where the mummy was inserted and was then sewn up to form a protective shell.

You can see in this photo how the artisans have worked with the material to enhance the decoration – it isn’t just painted on, the plaster itself is modelled so that the figures etc are all in slight raised relief. The painting has also been done with an eye for detail. 🧵 1/2

This is a piece of one of those busily decorated yellow 21st Dynasty coffins, with every bit of it covered in vignettes and protective symbols. It has no provenance, but it is now in the Ashmolean Museum (or at least it was when I photographed it in 2018).

The main scene on it shows some ba birds (human headed birds representing one of the parts of a person) pulling a rope attached to a boat. On the boat are several deities standing in a polite little queue facing in the direction the ba birds are pulling them. 🧵 1/3

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