Lot Essay
Gessoed and brightly painted, this coffin is comprised of an anthropoid lid and trough on a rectangular integral plinth. The deceased is depicted wearing a striped tripartite headcloth centered by a scarab and is adorned with an elaborate, multi-strand beaded broad collar with falcon-head terminals and a winged scarab at his chest. The body shows the Four Sons of Horus facing inward, flanking a column of hieroglyphs reading, "A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris Foremost of the West, Great God, Lord of Abydos, that he may give Invocation-Offerings of beer, oxen and fowl, offerings."
The right column of hieroglyphs on the reverse reads: "Recitation by Osiris, Foremost of the West, Great God, Lord of Abydos, that he may give Invocation-Offerings of beer, oxen and fowl, offerings and food, incense and oil, clothing (and alabaster?), and every good, pure thing, for the Ka of the Osiris Henes-hepet-en-Amun, son of Nayu-tja-en(?)." The left column reads: "A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris, Foremost of, Lord of Abydos, that he may give Invocation-Offerings of beer, oxen and fowl, offerings and food, incense and oil, clothing (and alabaster?), and every good, pure thing the Ka of the Osiris Henes-hepet-en-Amun, son of Nau-tjau(?)."
A band of text running along the base, the front with mirror-image text reads on the right side: "that he may give Invocation-Offerings of beer, oxen and fowl, offerings;" the left side reads: "Invocation-Offerings of oxen and fowl, offerings and food;" and the back reads: "A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris, Foremost of the West, Great God, Lord."
The right column of hieroglyphs on the reverse reads: "Recitation by Osiris, Foremost of the West, Great God, Lord of Abydos, that he may give Invocation-Offerings of beer, oxen and fowl, offerings and food, incense and oil, clothing (and alabaster?), and every good, pure thing, for the Ka of the Osiris Henes-hepet-en-Amun, son of Nayu-tja-en(?)." The left column reads: "A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris, Foremost of, Lord of Abydos, that he may give Invocation-Offerings of beer, oxen and fowl, offerings and food, incense and oil, clothing (and alabaster?), and every good, pure thing the Ka of the Osiris Henes-hepet-en-Amun, son of Nau-tjau(?)."
A band of text running along the base, the front with mirror-image text reads on the right side: "that he may give Invocation-Offerings of beer, oxen and fowl, offerings;" the left side reads: "Invocation-Offerings of oxen and fowl, offerings and food;" and the back reads: "A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris, Foremost of the West, Great God, Lord."