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ClassificationsAncient Egyptian Art

Falcon-Headed Coffin for a Corn Osiris

AAT Object Techniquepainting (image-making)

AAT Object Form/Functionfigurines

AAT Object Form/Functionvotive offerings

Place CreatedEgypt, Africa

CultureEgyptian

PeriodLate Period - Ptolemaic Period

Date722-30 BCE

MediumWood, gesso, pigment

Credit LineEgyptian Purchase Fund

Dimensions18 7/8 x 6 x 4 13/16 in. (47.9 x 15.2 x 12.2 cm)

Object number2004.072.001

Label TextOn special feast days, figurines of the god Osiris, molded in mud and grain, were offered at sacred sites. These figurines were sometimes placed in small coffins with the head of a falcon, evoking the god Sokar, another important funerary deity.
Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2001 - May 8, 2013
Hall of Ancient Egypt, The Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas, August 2014 - Present
Published ReferencesMCCM Newsletter, March - May 2002.

ProvenanceEx coll. Thomas J. Scapillato, United States. Ex coll. Paul Mooney, United States, purchased from Scapillato through Sands of Time Antiquities, Washington DC, summer 2001. Purchased by MCCM from Sue McGovern-Huffman [Sands of Time Antiquities], Washington DC.

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Not on view

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