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The goddess Isis / Hathor / Nut, wearing a long tight dress, is shown facing right with her arms bent upwards. She is adorned with a large Userkh collar and holds a folded cloth in each hand. She wears a tripartite wig surmounted by the Hathoric crown, a crown made up of the solar disk between cow horns, placed on a modus.
This fragment is the upper part of the exterior of the coffin which incorporates a dorsal pillar in the form of a Djed pillar, a sign identified with Osiris and stability.
Provenance
Former Private collection Germany, acquired ca. 1980
Publication(s)
O. Koefoed-Petersen: Catalogue des sarcophages et cerceuils egyptines, Copenhague 1951
A. Küffer: Die Bedeutung des Sarges, Suiss Coffin Project 2012
K.M. Cooney: Coffins, Cartonnage, and Sarcophagi, John Wiley & Sons 2015
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