ECM.1876-2010
Parts
Object number
ECM.1876-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
coffin lid
Description
Anthropoid coffin lid, belonging to Amenhotep (overseer of buildings) during the reign of Amenhotep III - (fragmentary)
Comments
Web images used with permission of The Barber Institute
Object described in the diary of Joseph William Myers, as excavated in Thebes, Egypt, probably after 1895.
"ECM 1876 had been acquired during the final four years of Myers’s collecting is suggested by its absence from the Burlington Fine Arts Club exhibition held in London in 1895. Since Myers loaned generously
to this event, had the Amenhotep lid then formed part of his collection it would almost certainly have been included"
"Amenhotep, Overseer of Builders of Amun: An Eighteenth-Dynasty Burial Reassembled": Nicholas Reeves; Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 48, No. 1 (January 2013), pp. 7-36 (30 pages)
Object described in the diary of Joseph William Myers, as excavated in Thebes, Egypt, probably after 1895.
"ECM 1876 had been acquired during the final four years of Myers’s collecting is suggested by its absence from the Burlington Fine Arts Club exhibition held in London in 1895. Since Myers loaned generously
to this event, had the Amenhotep lid then formed part of his collection it would almost certainly have been included"
"Amenhotep, Overseer of Builders of Amun: An Eighteenth-Dynasty Burial Reassembled": Nicholas Reeves; Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 48, No. 1 (January 2013), pp. 7-36 (30 pages)
Description
Dimensions
height: 830mm
width: 300mm
width: 300mm
Inscription
Words spoken [by] the Overseer of Builders of Amun, Amenhotep, true of voice: “O my mother Nut, spread
[thy wings over me! . . . ]”
[thy wings over me! . . . ]”
Material
Wood
metal
bronze
gold
stone
calcite
obsidian (?)
metal
bronze
gold
stone
calcite
obsidian (?)
Physical description
The upper part of a wooden coffin lid, sawn off below breast, of fine quality, with inlaid eyes, gilded face and yellow painted detail on a background of black resin; divine beard; under surface of fragment with painted hieroglyphic inscription
Production
Date
1500BC
History and association
Associated person
Myers, William Joseph, 1858 - 1899 (Compiler)
Object history note
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/675311?seq=1 (information from Nicholas Reeves)
Field collection
Collection place
Egypt
