Coffin and Mummy of Paankhaenamun
Egyptian; Thebes (now Luxor), Egypt
Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 22, reign of Osorkon I (about 924–889 BCE)
On view — Gallery 50 at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Mummification is the ancient Egyptian funerary practice of drying out a corpse for preservation. Anointed with oils and spices and protected with amulets, this linen-wrapped body was placed in a series of nesting coffins; the vividly painted cartonnage was the innermost shell. Across the surface of…
Description courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
- Medium
- Cartonnage, gold leaf, pigment, and mummified human remains
- Dimensions
- 170.2 × 43.2 × 31.7 cm (67 × 17 × 12 1/2 in.)
- Origin
- Thebes