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| Keywords: Egyptian - Coffin Panel with Paintings of Funerary Scenes - Walters 622 - Detail A.jpg This panel is from a human-shaped coffin ensemble typically used for the priests of Amun at Thebes who ruled there during the 21st Dynasty These wooden coffin groupings usually consisted of two nesting coffins with lids and a mummy board carved to resemble the deceased and placed directly on top of the mummy The panel is from the exterior right side of the inner container During the 21st Dynasty both the interior and exterior of coffins were decorated with amuletic symbols short texts and small highly colored scenes that covered every inch of the surface The owner of the coffin not named on the panel is depicted as a woman in one of the painted scenes By the 21st Dynasty decorated chapels and tombs were no longer used Instead burials took place in unmarked rock-cut chambers probably to deter tomb robbers Religious scenes that had once appeared on tomb walls were now painted on coffins and papyri The panel is divided into three zones The upper zone displays uraeus serpents symbolizing protection and Maat feathers representing the concepts of justice truth and divine order The second zone contains a religious text and the main zone below has different sections with representations of Osiris as well as the sun god in their shrines and scared places The union of the mythologies of Osiris and the solar god Re is significant as each set of beliefs both concerned with resurrection and rebirth was thought to benefit the deceased in their journey through the underworld between 1070 945 BC Third Intermediate wood with polychrome paint and varnish cm 188 48 3 22 7 accession number 62 2 38642 Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1926 place of origin Thebes in present-day Egypt Walters Art Museum license 2D Ancient Egyptian sarcophagi in the Walters Art Museum Ancient Egyptian art from Theban Necropolis Sarcophagi of the Egyptian third intermediate period | ||||
