Coffin and corn mummy with Osiris mask

A dark anthropoid coffin with a falcon head, its front covered in incised hieroglyphic columns and bands of sacred signs. The polished surface and stepped base stand upright against a plain light background.

Look closer: Rows of small hieroglyphic signs incised in the lower front panel.

Artist

Unknown

Date

380–200 BCE

Medium

coffin: wood, paint mummy: grain, sand, clay and/or soil, resin, linen bandages mask: wax

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2667 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1958