barbucomedie: Sarcophagus of the Priest Nesschutefnut dated…







barbucomedie:

Sarcophagus of the Priest Nesschutefnut dated between 350-30 BCE on display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

Both parts of the coffin are well-smoothed inside and outside and are covered with superbly worked reliefs and hieroglyphic inscriptions. Texts and illustrations are taken from the so-called cave book, an underworld book, which describes the journey of the sun god, Ra, through the underworld. 

The inside of the coffin cover shows the heavenly goddess groove, which the sun swallows every evening and gives birth to it the next morning. The goddess of the West, Hathor, can be seen at the bottom of the coffin, with its arms up to embrace the dead.

Photographs taken by myself

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