Unpublished Coffin-Lid from Interior of pA-di-mnx in Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Fawzy, Hossam Yaser; Abd El-Wahed, Rania Moustafa; Abou Bakr, Heba Ragab

doi:10.21608/lijas.2023.235289.1014

Unpublished Coffin-Lid from Interior of pA-di-mnx in Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Egyptology Department, Faculty of Archaeology, Luxor University, Luxor, Egypt.

² Egyptology and Islamic Archaeology Department, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.

10.21608/lijas.2023.235289.1014

Abstract

The Current paper is concerned with the study and publication of a coffin-lid from interior of pA-di-mnx from Ptolemaic period. Who was a priest of the god Min, maybe he lived in the 3^rd or 4^th century BC. His Coffin was found at Panopolis, a city in Upper-Egypt now known as Akhmim. In addition, it has been gifted by Charles Parsons in 1896 to the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, USA as 2001.87a-d. This paper gives a detailed description of the depiction of the goddess Nut as well as the texts recorded around her inside the coffin-lid. The focus, however, is on these inscriptions are linked to the Book of Hourly-Vigil. Which was not known until the Ptolemaic period, but dates back to the beginning of Ancient Egyptian Civilization, and its purpose is to ensure a return to life again by helping the deceased to awaken, which is only done by a number of gods, Led by the goddess Nut.

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