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