Outer Sarcophagus of the Royal Prince, Count of Thebes, Pa-seba-khai-en-ipet
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Object Label
In the Twenty-first Dynasty, the Egyptian elites stopped building elaborate tombs. Instead, they transferred the scenes normally painted on tomb walls to the coffin. Pa-seba-khai-en-ipet’s outer coffin shows multiple scenes of the gods and the deceased worshipping them. Not only does the coffin present the deceased as Osiris, but it also illustrates the many gods he will confront in the afterlife.
The damage to the painted surface on the left side of the coffin has been left unrepaired to reveal how the carpenters pinned smaller pieces of wood together with wooden pegs to make a coffin. Artists then plastered and painted the surface to make it appear smooth.
Caption
Outer Sarcophagus of the Royal Prince, Count of Thebes, Pa-seba-khai-en-ipet, ca. 1075–945 B.C.E.. Wood (cedar and acacia), gesso, pigment, 37 x 30 1/4 x 83 3/8 in., 287 lb. (94 x 76.8 x 211.8 cm, 130.2kg) Lid: 117.5 lb. (53.3kg) Base: 169.5 lb. (76.9kg) mount (Support and display board, NMK loan): 39 × 93 × 38 in. (99.1 × 236.2 × 96.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 08.480.1a-b. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 08.480.1a-b_profile_PS1.jpg)
Title
Outer Sarcophagus of the Royal Prince, Count of Thebes, Pa-seba-khai-en-ipet
Date
ca. 1075–945 B.C.E.
Dynasty
Dynasty 21
Period
Third Intermediate Period
Geography
Place collected: Thebes, Egypt
Medium
Wood (cedar and acacia), gesso, pigment
Classification
Dimensions
37 x 30 1/4 x 83 3/8 in., 287 lb. (94 x 76.8 x 211.8 cm, 130.2kg) Lid: 117.5 lb. (53.3kg) Base: 169.5 lb. (76.9kg) mount (Support and display board, NMK loan): 39 × 93 × 38 in. (99.1 × 236.2 × 96.5 cm)
Credit Line
Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Accession Number
08.480.1a-b
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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