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Coffin of Isetweret

Ancient Egypt

Coffin of Isetweret

Ancient Egypt
  • Date: c.400 - c.250 BC
  • Style: Late Period
  • Theme: Sarcophagi
  • Genre: portrait, symbolic painting
  • Media: wood, paint, gesso
  • Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), New York City, NY, US
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The coffin’s inscription tells us that its owner was the woman Isetweret and that her father, a priest, was called Wenpasherymin and her mother Iretenhapiaat. Isetweret lived in Akhmim, an important religious and cultural center in the Ptolemaic Period that was closely connected to the fertility god Min. The face of the coffin is nicely modelled and its bright color stands out against the dark hair and body.

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Excavated at Akhmim by Gaston Maspero on behalf of the Egyptian Antiquities Service. Purchased from the Egyptian Government, 1886.

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