Coffin of Nesykhonsu
c. 976–889 BCE
- Medium
- gessoed and painted sycamore fig
- Classification
- Funerary Equipment
- Dimensions
- Overall: 70 cm (27 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- Egypt, Thebes, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE), Dynasties 21–22
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Credit line
- Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Egyptian coffins told stories and illustrated spells to help the deceased transition safely to the afterlife. Inside Nesykhonsu's coffin there are two jackals, one facing right and the other left, near the top. Here, the jackal represents the powerful deity Anubis, the god of the afterlife and embalming.
