Literature

The mask is from an anthropoid coffin lid of a woman as no beard appears to have been attached at the chin. The lower part of the case would have been richly decorated with funerary text and motifs, including images of protective deities. Such coffins generally give the name and titles of the deceased and traditional offering formulae and spells to ensure a successful afterlife. For further discussion of coffin texts see S. D'Auria, P. Lacovara, C. Roehrig, Mummies and Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1988, p. 39-41. There is a similar dark painted wood (cedar) mummy mask on a coffin for Nes-Pa-Sobek in the Field Museum Chicago.