Coffin Fragment

Modelled face sculptured from a single piece of wood with trace of painted detail. The front is naturalistically formed but the back surface is a flat plane. The face (or “mask”) was carved separately and would have been pegged in place on the coffin during the manufacture process. A sculptured wooden wig would have been affixed to the head by pegs. This construction technique was widely used during the First Intermediate Period and Late Period (1069 BC – 332 BC). CONDITION NOTE (1998): Incomplete, dry, splitting, loss of decoration, surface loss, label sellortaped to surface, surface dirt.