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Lot Essay
The anthropoid lid decorated in polychrome with the Four Sons of Horus on the sides, wearing a broad beaded collar, winged Nut kneeling beneath holding feathers and wearing a sun-disc, and paired jackal deities couchant on shrines facing each other on the front of the pediment. With text preserved in five areas: on the upper left side, accompanying the baboon-headed Hapy, one of the Four Sons of Horus reading "Recitation by Hapy .... Justified. I am Hapy... in your face (?), that you may be concealed from your enemies ....” ; on the lower left, accompanying the falcon-headed Qebeh-senuef, another of the Four Sons of Horus reading "“I cause that ... come ....”; on the lower right, accompanying the jackal-headed Dua-mutef, the third Son of Horus, reading "“Dua-mutef, Oho! (?) ....”; on the front below the broad collar, in front of the goddess’ face and behind her head reading "“Recitation by Nut the Great, Genetrix of the Gods” and “Osiris Ka-nefer, [I] spread [myself] over you... you, I am ... your ... [your] mother [Nut(?)].”; and the most substantial inscription, comprising five vertical columns on the front of the coffin, continuing from the front surface to the horizontal upper surface of the foot section reading "O Osiris, ... Ka-nefer, son of Ahmose, Justified, Possessor of Veneration: Your mother Nut spreads herself over you in that name of hers of “Mystery of [Heaven],” how you are is as a god/ for (?) your enemies in your name of god (?), when she has joined [you] with everything ... the desert, the land and the sky (?), Osiris, the ... Ka-nefer, engendered of the Lady of the house/Ta-remetj-ne(t)-Bastet, Justified, Possessor of Veneration, complete and great with respect to her children; the High One (?) travels with his Ka, Osiris travels with his Ka, the Akh travels/ with his Ka, [Thoth] travels with his Ka, Sepa travels with his Ka, Mekhenty-irty travels with his Ka, We[ndj]ut (?) travels with [his] Ka, the Lord/ the Osiris, the ... Ka-nefer, son of ... Ah-mose, engendered of the Lady of the House Ta-remetj-ne(t)-Bastet, Justified, Possessor of Veneration.”
Professor John Garstang is considered one of the pioneers of modern archaeology and travelled extensively through the Middle-East and Egypt carrying out numerous excavation campaigns. In 1904 he founded the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Liverpool and in 1919 became the first director of the British School of Archaeology in Palestine.
His excavations at the cemeteries of Beni Hasan, in Middle Egypt, were undertaken over two winter seasons in 1902-3 and 1903-4 and were sponsored by members of a special committee which included, amongst others, representatives for the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge. The burial sites at Beni Hasan included important administrators from the immediate area such as Khety, during the Middle Kingdom, and contains about 930 tombs.
Professor John Garstang is considered one of the pioneers of modern archaeology and travelled extensively through the Middle-East and Egypt carrying out numerous excavation campaigns. In 1904 he founded the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Liverpool and in 1919 became the first director of the British School of Archaeology in Palestine.
His excavations at the cemeteries of Beni Hasan, in Middle Egypt, were undertaken over two winter seasons in 1902-3 and 1903-4 and were sponsored by members of a special committee which included, amongst others, representatives for the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge. The burial sites at Beni Hasan included important administrators from the immediate area such as Khety, during the Middle Kingdom, and contains about 930 tombs.