Although they were expensive, coffins were considered a key component of the burial assemblage and are found in tombs from the Predynastic period to the Greco-Roman era and beyond. In addition to protection, the coffin had several religious and symbolic functions that changed over time.

2023年9月2日 · Ancient Egyptian Coffins were ancestral pieces of art that held magnificent meaning and played a central part in the ancient Egyptian religion that offered divine protection for the body after death.

Prior to actual coffins, the Ancient Egyptians covered bodies in a mat or a fur and put them in coffins made of clay or a crude wooden one. The Ancient Egyptians used to place tombs in a sarcophagus, which means flesh eater in Greek.

Many coffins survive that are recognizably Egyptian. There are anthropoid and qersu coffins (with four corner posts) but, inside these, the dead were wrapped in decorated linen shrouds rather than laid in inner coffins. There were also some significant changes in decoration.

2024年12月13日 · The Phoenicians developed a white marble anthropoid sarcophagus of the Egyptian type in the 5th century bce, and in Hellenistic times they specialized in making leaden coffins and elaborately carved marble sarcophagi.

6 天之前 · The Coffin Texts refer to a diverse collection of spells and recitations used in ancient Egypt, primarily found inscribed on burial items during the Middle Kingdom (c. 2055–1650 BCE).

Coffins/Sarcophagi: Early tombs were considered the eternal dwelling places of the deceased, and the earliest coffins resembled miniature homes in appearance. They were made of small pieces of local wood doweled together. By the Old Kingdom, coffins were …

2024年9月24日 · Images of the deceased on coffins, sarcophagi, tomb walls, and in statuary allowed the soul to recognize itself once it had left the body, and works such as the Coffin Texts and the Egyptian Book of the Dead provided instruction on how to proceed through the next world on one's way to paradise.

Throughout Ancient Egyptian history, despite many changes in emphasis and fashion, there were two major themes in the decoration of coffins. These reflected two of the most important strands of belief concerning the afterlife.

Comprising a mummy board, inner coffin and outer coffin, it was one of the first objects to be acquired into the fledgling Fitzwilliam Museum's ancient Egyptian collection in 1822. This coffin set belongs to a man named Pakepu who worked as a 'water pourer on the west of Thebes' around c.680-664 BC.