Box for funeral servants with triple compartments

-1069 / -943 (XXI dynasty)

Place of discovery: Thebes Ouest

E 13322; CM 306; BN 935

Department of Egyptian Antiquities

Description

Object name/Title Name: box for funeral servants with triple compartments 

Description/ FeaturesDecor: front face; offering scene (2, symmetrical); man (2, standing, loincloth, sleeve shirt, beard, offering, tray, front); Osiris (on the right, sitting, shind, atef crown); Ptah-Sokar (on the left, hawk-headed god, sitting, sild, atef crown)s
Back side; kherep (Osiris, ?, menat necklace, flanked by); Isis (on knees, on, sign of gold, sign of Isis, crying); Nephthys (on knees, on, sign of gold, sign of Nephthys, crying)

Right face; Amset; Douamoutef

Left side; Hapi; Qébehsenouf

RegistrationsWriting:

Hieroglyphic

Nature of the text:

Behalf

Title

Names and titles  Soutymes (superior of the guardians of the writings of the house of money of the domain of Amun-Rê king of the gods, priest-ouâb, superior of the altar, superior of the temple scribes of the domain of Amon-Rê king of the gods); Osiris; Ptah-Sokar; Amset; Hapi; Douamoutef; Qébehsenouf

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Dimensions Height: 54 cm; Length: 53 cm; Width: 22 cm

Materials and techniques Material: wood

Technique: painting

PLACES AND DATES
Date XXI dynasty (attribution according to style) (-1069 - -943)

Place of discoveryWest Thebes (Thebes->Theban region->Upper Egypt)

HISTORY
Collector / Previous owner / Commissioner / Archaeologist / DedicateEM. Thédenat-Duvent, Pierre-Paul, Collector, ?-1822

Thédenat-Duvent, Savior-Fortuné, Collector

Medal Cabinet, Former assignee

Acquisition details assigned to the Louvre
Acquisition date public sale date: 23/12/1822 (Thédenat-Duvent)

Date of registration on the inventory: 1907

Committee/commission date: 11/28/1907 (Announcement of the arrival of objects transferred from the Medal Cabinet to the Louvre)

Owned by State
Held by Louvre Museum, Department of Egyptian Antiquities