Egyptian coffin

Putting the body into a coffin was the last step in the embalming process. The rich had elaborate coffins. From our Topic Mummy Makers and the Afterlife | Kids Discover

Painted wooden coffin of the Lady Madja. Dated to the middle of Dynasty XVIII and found in the cemetery west of Qurnet Murai (Deir el-Medina). Musee du Louvre. E14543

Coffin of tutankhamun

Outer coffin, Second coffin and Inner coffin of Tutankhamun.

Tutankhamun’s tomb, middle coffin. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. c. 1323 B.C.E.

Egypt, Thebes 3rd Intermediate Period, late Dynasty 21 Gessoed and painted sycamore Cleveland Museum of Art This is one of the finest examples of painted wooden coffins made for the priests of Amen and their families at Thebes during Dynasty 21 and early 22. The pharaohs of this time were no longer buried in the Valley of the Kings, but instead built tombs in the Delta, far to the north, where they resided. Security was lax in the Theban necropolis. The coffins and funerary goods of the…

Beautifully preserved coffin of the mummy of Nesmutaatneru (see 95.1407a). The coffin, of a type that replaced cartonnage cases, takes the form of a mummified body standing on a pedestal and supported in back by a djed-pillar, the hieroglyph for stability and emblem of Osiris. The decoration is brightly painted on a layer of plastered linen. Nesmutaatneru wears a vulture headdress over a long wig, an elaborate broad collar, and a ram-headed pectoral. The body is divided by bands of…

Finely crafted of pinewood and painted in brilliant colors, the anthropoid coffin of the singer Hormose was discovered in the limestone chip dumped on the slope below Senenmut's tomb chapel (TT 71). The face is overlaid with gold foil and the eyes are carved of alabaster and obsidian set into ebony sockets