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Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

Outer Coffin of Pasebakhaienipet

ca. 1075–945 B.C.E.

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Object Label

In the Twenty-first Dynasty, the Egyptian elites stopped building elaborate tombs. Instead, they transferred the scenes normally painted on tomb walls to the coffin. Pa-seba-khai-en-ipet’s outer coffin shows multiple scenes of the gods and the deceased worshipping them. Not only does the coffin present the deceased as Osiris, but it also illustrates the many gods he will confront in the afterlife.

The damage to the painted surface on the left side of the coffin has been left unrepaired to reveal how the carpenters pinned smaller pieces of wood together with wooden pegs to make a coffin. Artists then plastered and painted the surface to make it appear smooth.

Caption

Outer Coffin of Pasebakhaienipet, ca. 1075–945 B.C.E.. Wood (cedar and acacia), gesso, pigment, 37 x 30 1/4 x 83 3/8 in., 287 lb. (94 x 76.8 x 211.8 cm, 130.2kg) Lid: 117.5 lb. (53.3kg) Base: 169.5 lb. (76.9kg) mount (Support and display board, NMK loan): 39 × 93 × 38 in. (99.1 × 236.2 × 96.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 08.480.1a-b. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Title

Outer Coffin of Pasebakhaienipet

Date

ca. 1075–945 B.C.E.

Dynasty

Dynasty 21

Period

Third Intermediate Period

Geography

Place collected: Thebes, Egypt

Medium

Wood (cedar and acacia), gesso, pigment

Classification

Funerary Object

Dimensions

37 x 30 1/4 x 83 3/8 in., 287 lb. (94 x 76.8 x 211.8 cm, 130.2kg) Lid: 117.5 lb. (53.3kg) Base: 169.5 lb. (76.9kg) mount (Support and display board, NMK loan): 39 × 93 × 38 in. (99.1 × 236.2 × 96.5 cm)

Credit Line

Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund

Accession Number

08.480.1a-b

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