John H. Taylor

Redating the Coffins of the North Carolina Museum of Art

The two little-known coffins in the Egyptian collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, USA, have recently been the subjects of scholarly research. The present article offers a detailed description of the decorative scheme of the coffins and the subsequent re-dating and provenance attribution based on iconography and design. The article also includes a few notes on each of the deceased’s names and titles, an overview of the inscriptions, and a brief examination of the materials and construction methods.

Edward Stanley Poole's drawings of two royal coffins of the Seventeenth Dynasty

Published here are the drawings of the coffins of two kings Intef, Louvre E 3019 and E 3020, and hand-copies of their inscriptions, made by Edward Stanley Poole and annotated by A. C. Harris in 1848. The copies also include a facsimile of a hieratic text written on a mummy-cloth associated with one of the coffins.

A Daughter of King Harsiese

The name of a daughter of the pharaoh Harsiese, incompletely preserved on a wooden fragment from Abydos (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania University Museum E.16186), is tentatively restored as tз-di-tз-nbt-hn.

A note on the family of Montemhat

The elimination of two non-existent members of Montemhats family (Hetepamun ii and Titenese ii) follows a corrected reading of a text in the Vassalli MSS.