Cartonnage of Lady Tashat
On View In:
Gallery 250
Artist:   Artist Unknown  
Title:   Cartonnage of Lady Tashat  
Date:   945-712 BCE  
Medium:   Painted and varnished linen  
Dimensions:   67 in. (170.2 cm)  
Credit Line:   The William Hood Dunwoody Fund  
Location:   Gallery 250  

This coffin and cartonnage (mummy case) were created for Lady Tashat, the daughter of the provincial governor Djehutyhotep (pronounced “je-hooti-HO-tep” meaning “doorkeeper of the gold-house of Amen”). The coffin and cartonnage take the form of mummies with idealized faces, huge floral collars, and chest ornaments in the form of a winged sun disk. While the coffin exterior has only a single line of inscription down the center of the lid and another around the rim of the box, the cartonnage exterior is covered with painted scenes arranged in horizontal registers, like a tomb or temple wall. The inscriptions are prayers to the gods for offerings of food and clothing in the afterlife, while the paintings are full of complex religious motifs focusing on divine protection of the deceased and resurrection in the afterlife.

Artist/Creator(s)     
Name:   Artist Unknown  
 

Object Description  
  
Inscriptions:    
Classification:   Funerary Goods  
Physical Description:   X-ray of Lady tashat is at column in Paintings racks in MS  
Creation Place:   Africa, Egypt, North Africa region, ,  
Accession #:   16.414  
Owner:   The Minneapolis Institute of Arts