Fragment Of Wooden Coffin Lid
date: label: Accession Date
content: 11 Jan 1963
name: label: Donor Name
content: Cpl Usmc Richard D. Rapier
notes: label: Notes
content: From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Coffin fragment, 1200-1000 B.C. Egyptians often depicted the sky goddess Nut in the coffin so the deceased's spirit could cross the night sky like the sun god to be reborn in the morning. In the Osiris legend, the dead king ascended to his mother, Nut, in the heavens where she renewed his mummified body.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 50
place: label: Place
content: Minna, Lower Egypt, Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ancient Egyptian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 247749
label: USNM Number
content: A436024-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Coffin