Shaped wooden footpiece of coffin; plastered & painted with figures on both sides (only top half on reverse side).

Collection type: Object
Description: Shaped wooden footpiece of coffin; plastered & painted with figures on both sides (only top half on reverse side).
Long description: Inverse side: Nephthys kneels and holds up her hands in mourning, with two Ankhs - symbols of life - draped over her arms. Mirrored on both sides of her are the lotus plant. [KLJ 28/10/22]
Geographical reference: Egypt
Africa > Northern Africa > Egypt
Person: Field collector Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland; PRM source Family of Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Ancient Egyptian 3rd Intermediate
Date collected: By 1901
Acquisition information: Donated: 1901
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Painted
Dimensions: Height x Width: max 275 x 240 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1901.31.3
Research and responses: The figure on the inverse side is the goddess Nephthys, identified by the hieroglyphic signifier on the top of her head which represents the House of the Dead (where human remains were taken to go through the process of mummification). [KLJ 28/10/22]
Cynthia Sheikholeslam, a researcher who visited the museum in September 2010, advised that this piece was a coffin footpiece, probably of the 21st to 22nd Dynasties. [AS 07/09/2010]

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