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Flax seeds, Coffin, Botanical specimen, Botaniskt specimen, Kista, Linfrö

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Upphovsman: <presImageByline>Medelhavsmuseet 2014
Upphovsrätt: <presImageCopyright> Statens museer för världskultur
Licens: <mediaLicense> Licens
Typ <itemType> Objekt/föremål
Datering <presTimeLabel> 3rd Century BC, Ptolemaic Time Period [mid]
Plats <presPlaceLabel> Afrika, Egypten, Luxor
Description <itemDescription>
  • Outer coffin for Neswaiu, son of Takeretdjehuty.

    A massive bivalve anthropoid case, depicting the deceased wearing a tripartite wig and a broad collar with raptor-headed terminals laid upon the chest. The whole coffin has a black resinous coating with painted whites of the eyes and the decoration drawn on in thin yellow-painted lines.

    A string of amulets is depicted across the throat, with a ba-...

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Inventory number <itemDescription>
Acquisition <itemDescription>
  • Gift from G. Anastasi 1826. Dep. 1928.
Comments <itemDescription>
  • The object was studied by Aidan Dodson 2012
Comments <itemDescription>
  • A small glass jar with flax seeds is in store. According to a note they are from cracks in the upper side of the lid of NME 007. Stored with botanical collection.
Comments <itemDescription>
  • As with the inner coffin, this piece is all but identical to the corresponding coffin of Hornedjyotef. There are detail differences in the layout of the decoration, but both coffins were clearly made ... Visa hela
Comments <itemDescription>
  • Mid third century BC, since the both coffins of the set were clearly made in the same workshop as was responsible for the coffins of Hornedjyotef in the British Museum, the owner of which has been da... Visa hela
Cf Publications <itemDescription>
  • Buhl 1959: 158, fig. 87; Porter and Moss 1960-64: 832.
Period, Swedish <itemDescription>
  • 3e århundradet f Kr, Ptolemeisk tid [mellersta]
Publications <itemDescription>
  • Schmidt, Typologisk Atlas, 225, nr. 1298; Dodson 2015:51-53 Ancient Egyptian Coffins: the Medelhavsmuseet collection
Context <itemDescription>
  • 'Found in the hill of Piccinini's house' (the south end of Dra Abu'l-Naga in the Theban Necropolis, close to Theban Tomb 161
Utställning / ingår i <itemDescription>
Exhibition / Previously <itemDescription>
Country / Findspot <itemDescription>
Exhibition, Part of / Current <itemDescription>
  • New Egypt, 9, The Tomb
Exhibition, Part of / Previously <itemDescription>
  • Egyptian gallery 2, showcase 02:07
Description, Swedish <itemDescription>
  • Mumien Neswaiu's ytterkista
Description, Swedish <itemDescription>
  • Mumien Neswaiu's ytterkista. Insidan av locket, detalj.
Description, Swedish <itemDescription>
  • Mumien Neswaiu's ytterkista. Insidan av locket.
Description, Swedish <itemDescription>
  • Repro. Mumiekista tillhörande mannen Neswaiu, ptolemaisk tid.
Description, Swedish <itemDescription>
  • Mumien Neswaiu's ytterkista. Insidan av botten.
Description, Swedish <itemDescription>
  • Mumien Neswaiu's ytterkista. Undersidan av botten.
Description, Swedish <itemDescription>
  • Ytterkista för Neswaiu, son till Takeretdjehuty.

    Ett massivt tvådelat, antropoid fodral som föreställer den avlidne som bär en tredelad peruk och en bred krage med avslutningar i form av rovfågelshuv...

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Description, Swedish <itemDescription>
  • Kista till mumie Neswaiu
Description, Swedish <itemDescription>
  • Mumien Neswaiu's ytterkista. Locket.
Acquisition, Swedish <itemDescription>
  • Gåva från G. Anastasi 1826. Dep. 1928.
Geographic name, alternative / Swedish <itemDescription>
Referens, publicerad i <itemDescription>
  • George, Beate (1979). "Ein Text der Ptolemäerzeit über das Dasein in Unterwelt und Grab" in Medelhavsmuseet Bulletin no 14 p.16-23.
Referens, publicerad i <itemDescription>
  • Hoeij, Margreet van (1998) "Nswj, a priest in Thebes. Preliminary Report" in Medelhavsmuseet Bulletin no 31 (1997), p. 22-50.
Referens, publicerad i <itemDescription>
  • Dodson, Aidan (2015) Ancient Egyptian Coffins. The Medelhavsmuseet Collection. National Museums of World Culture, Stockholm
Exhibition, showcase / Current <itemDescription>
Egyptenutställningen 2014, English / Label <itemDescription>
  • The mummified man Neswaiu and his coffins.
    Neswaiu lived in Thebes during the third century BC.
    His lavish set of coffins suggests that he belonged to the upper social classes. This is confirmed by th...

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Egyptenutställningen 2014, Swedish / Label <itemDescription>
  • Den mumifierade mannen Neswaiu
    och hans kistor.
    Neswaiu levde i Thebe under det tredje århundradet f Kr.
    Hans påkostade kistor antyder att han hörde hemma i de övre samhällsskikten. Det bekräftas av i...

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Händelse <context>
  • Förvärvad av Anastasi, Giovanni.
  • Brukad 3rd Century BC, Ptolemaic Time Period [mid].
  • Funnen i Luxor, Egypten, Afrika.
Material, engelska<itemMaterial>
Wood, resinated and painted
Material<itemMaterial>
Trä, resinerat och målat
Nyckelord <itemKeyWord>
  • 3rd Century BC, Ptolemaic Time Period [mid]
  • Neswaiu
  • New Egypt
Mått <itemMeasurement>
  • Height / Höjd: 28 face
  • Length / Längd: 229 cm.
  • Depth / Djup: 54 cm. lid-nose
  • Depth / Djup: 20,5 cm. troug
  • Depth / Djup: 46,7 cm. lid-foot
  • Thickness / Tjocklek: 12 cm. wood
  • Width / Bredd: 83 cm. shoulders
  • Width / Bredd: 61 cm. foot
Object, Swedish<itemName>
Botaniskt specimen
Kista
Linfrö
Object<itemName>
Flax seeds
Coffin
Botanical specimen
Ämne <subject>
  • Kulturhistoria
Inventory number <itemNumber>
Alternative ID <itemNumber>
Alternative ID <itemNumber>
Egypt, Number in Exhibition <itemNumber>
Rättigheter för metadata <itemLicense> Licens
Källa <presOrganization> Statens museer för världskultur - Medelhavsmuseet
Källa <url>

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