Coffin of Entemaemsaf

Coffin of Entemaemsaf

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The four black-painted coffins in gallery 109 are decorated with bands of inscription containing spells from the Coffin Texts. The eyes of Horus painted at the head end of the left side are enclosed in panels with a cavetto cornice on top. Two examples (31.3.429a, b; 31.3.430a, b) have a false door panel beneath the eyes, and a third (31.3.431) has a false door and a polychrome dado. On this coffin, which is inscribed for a priest named Entemaemsaf (or En-tema-em-saf), the bands of inscription have a yellow background.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.