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Side Panel from the Coffin of Amenemope
The collection record classifies this work as funerary equipment. It is dated c. 976–889 BCE. Recorded culture or place: Egypt, Thebes, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE), Dynasties 21–22.
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- Museum title
- Side Panel from the Coffin of Amenemope
- Date
- c. 976–889 BCE
- Culture / origin
- Egypt, Thebes, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE), Dynasties 21–22
- Materials and technique
- gessoed and painted sycamore fig
- Dimensions
- Overall: 60.4 x 41 x 6 cm (23 3/4 x 16 1/8 x 2 3/8 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1921.1029
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Look closely at both sides of this panel. It is a part of a coffin made for a priest named Amenemope (say: ah-men-em-oh-pee). The inside of the coffin shows a priest in the world of the living, preparing Amenemope and his wife, Taditkhonsu (say: tah-deet-khon-soo), for their journeys through the underworld. The priest uses tools to open the mummies’ mouths so that they can eat and speak in the afterlife. The outside of the coffin shows scenes of Amenemope in the underworld, using the senses restored to him by the ritual.
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