Ancient Egyptian Chest with Writing, ca. 1st century BC, made of wood, currently located at the Walters Art Museum, USA.
The front of this box shows a king making an offering to the crocodile-god Sobek. Above the scene is an inscription in demotic. The box may have been used in temple rituals.
A huge, beautifully carved, anthropoid (human-shaped) coffin inscribed for Queen Ahmose-Meritamun, who was the principal wife and sister of Amenhotep I of early 18th Dynasty.
An inscription on the outer shroud stated that her burial had been “examined” on a specific date in year 19 of an unnamed king.
Herbert Eustis Winlock eventually identified this king as
Pinedjem
I, who ruled some 500 years after Ahmose-Meritamun’s death.
Photograph by Harry Burton, 1929. Archives of the Egyptian Expedition, Department of Egyptian Art. From the Tomb of Queen Ahmose-Meritamun (TT358), Deir el-Bahari, West Thebes.
The outer coffin
now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 53140
