Artist:
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Artist Unknown
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Title:
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Cartonnage of Lady Tashat
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Date:
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945-712 BCE
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Medium:
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Painted and varnished linen
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Dimensions:
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67 in. (170.2 cm)
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Credit Line:
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The William Hood Dunwoody Fund
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Location:
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Gallery 250
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This coffin and cartonnage (mummy case) were created for Lady Tashat, the daughter of the provincial governor Djehutyhotep (pronounced âje-hooti-HO-tepâ meaning âdoorkeeper of the gold-house of Amenâ). 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)
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Name:
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Artist Unknown
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Classification:
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Funerary Goods
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Physical Description:
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X-ray of Lady tashat is at column in Paintings racks in MS
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Creation Place:
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Africa, Egypt, North Africa region, ,
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Accession #:
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16.414
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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