Object name: Wooden panel showing the goddess Nephthys
Accession no.: E.GA.4331.1943
Other numbers and markings: tbd
Dimensions: H 33 cm
W 18 cm
D 3 cm
Brief description:
Nephthys is shown here crouching on the gold hieroglyph, with the hieroglyphs that spell her name on her head. Depictions of Nephthys and Isis were included on coffins to provide protection to the body inside, in the same way that these goddesses protected Osiriss body.
Fragment of a wooden coffin board, made of two pieces of wood. Nephthys is sitting on a nub (gold) sign. Here arms are raised. The figure is painted in black outlines; details are in red and green. The skin is left unpainted. The piece comes perhaps from the head end of a coffin box.
Date: About 664-200 BC
Find spot: unknown
Acquisition: given by R.G. Gayer-Anderson
Construction, decoration and materials:
Other information
Wooden panel showing the goddess Nephthys front view
Wooden panel showing the goddess Nephthys back view with markings
