IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 50823 accession number: E.216.1903 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 18 July 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: All that has survived of this coffin are two long planks from the bottom of each long side. They originally formed part of a Middle Kingdom box coffin, dated by Wolfram Grajetzki to the mid- to late 12th Dynasty (about 1985-1750 BC). The coffin was found at Beni Hasan by John Garstang in 1903, but it is not clear which tomb it comes from. Wolfram Grajetzki suggests it was from tomb 135. The decoration shows what is known as a palace facade, thought to indicate that the dead person inside was a form of Osiris, who was considered the king of the underworld and thus needed to be housed in a royal enclosure. The name of the coffin owner, Nakht, survives in several places. title: coffin LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Antiquities STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/50823 CATEGORIES ------ category: funerary equipment DATING ------ creation date: 1985 - 1773 creation date earliest: 1985 creation date latest: 1773 culture: Middle Kingdom CITATIONS -------- Burial customs of ancient Egypt; as illustrated by tombs of the Middle Kingdom, being a report of excavations made in the necropolis of Beni Hasan during 1902-4 ---