Detail from the coffin of Ti-Ameny-Net, photograph by Taylor Dabney
The central scene on the coffin of Ti-Ameny-Net shows the mummy lying on a funeral bier with the four canopic jars containing the internal organs beneath the couch and the ba bird, a representation of the soul of the deceased, hovering above the legs of the mummy. The scene is not fully preserved on Ti-Ameny-Net’s coffin, but similar images are found in Egyptian funerary texts and on other coffins, as in this image from a priest’s coffin made around the same time:
Detail from the coffin of Ankh-Wennefer, circa 600-525 BCE, Collection of the Washington State Historical Society, 1898.6.1.
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