Object name: Face from a yellow coffin
Accession no.: E.GA.507.1947
Other numbers and markings: tbd
Dimensions: H 24.6 cm
W 21.7 cm
D 5.4 cm
Brief description:
Face of a coffin, carved from sycomore fig, with sidr and sycomore fig dowels. The flower on the forehead suggests that this may be from a woman’s coffin, although this feature is also found on men’s coffins. The chin and nose were heavily restored sometime in the early twentieth century.
Date: About 1070–735 BC
Find spot: unknown
Acquisition: given by R.G. Gayer-Anderson
Construction, decoration and materials:
Other information
Face from a yellow coffin front view
Face from a yellow coffin back view with markings
