A Decorated Wooden Coffin from Tell-Tamiya

عبد الوهاب, وزير; ابو العطا, محمد

doi:10.21608/jars.2025.383047.1004

A Decorated Wooden Coffin from Tell-Tamiya

نوع المستند : المقالة الأصلية

المؤلفون

¹ جامعة بنى سويف

² كلية الآثار جامعة الفيوم

10.21608/jars.2025.383047.1004

المستخلص

Abstract
This paper deals with an unpublished decorated wooden coffin kept in the Kom Aushim store museum, originally found in Tell-Tamiya near Fayoum. It is an anthropoid coffin in irregular hexagonal shape with the upper part missing. The lid contains seven registers; six of them, together with the footboard, depict religious, symbolic and ritual scenes, while the sixth register has a hieroglyphic text of one of the Nut spells. After giving a description and commentary of each register separately, the study concludes that the arrangement of the scenes on the coffin lid follows the pattern of sky-earth-netherworld in order to keep the coffin symbolism as a miniature representation of the universe. Although the register of Kom Aushim store museum dates the coffin to the Roman Period, the study suggests the late period as an appropriate date of the coffin.
Introduction
This coffin is now preserved in the Kom Aushim store museum under the inventory number 786 (Figs. 1, 2). The information given in the museum register mentions that it was found at Tell-Tamiya, about 16 km south west of Fayoum city, according to a report from the police of antiquities. It was brought to the museum in the first half of 1980s by Ahmed Abdel-Aal, the inspector of antiquities in Fayoum region.

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