Unknown Egyptian
Painted Wooden Coffin of the Sacred Ibis of Thoth

Painted Wooden Coffin of the Sacred Ibis of Thoth

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Painted Wooden Coffin of the Sacred Ibis of Thoth
Artist
CultureEgyptian
Titles
  • Painted Wooden Coffin of the Sacred Ibis of Thoth
Date332–30 BC
MediumWood with polychrome decoration
Dimensions7 5/16 × 17 × 7 5/16 in. (18.5 × 43.2 × 18.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Isabel Brown Wilson and The Brown Foundation, Inc.
Object number2008.808
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
200 Jamail Atrium
On view

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Department
Antiquities
Object Type
Provenance[L'Ibis Gallery, Ltd., New York, by the early 1980s]; [Phoenix Ancient Art, New York/Geneva, by 2009]; purchased by MFAH, 2009.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
There is a Demotic inscription in the field between the head and chest of the ibis and the ostrich feather of truth, two lines which may be translated into English as: "The Ibis god"
"Written by Thoth-iu (son of) Teos.”

The second long side: "May Horus and Isis protect Osiris."

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