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Fragments of coffin

Egyptian

Medium/Technique Cartonnage
Dimensions Overall: 16 x 22 cm (6 5/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Hay Collection—Gift of C. Granville Way
Accession Number72.4803
NOT ON VIEW

DescriptionYellow brown; vertical columns of hieroglyphics in bas-relief and dark brown in color; ragged edges. Many fragments and one larger section of front.
Hieroglyphs (the fragments from the top across):
1- ... Hr-pw ms n... (Hr-pw born of ...)
2- ... D(d) mdw n QbH-snw.f.. (Recitation for (by) QbH-snw.f)
... dwAW xm.I ...
... D(d) mdw n dwA-mwt.f Ink ... (Recitation for dwA-mwt.f. I am ...)
3- ... (W)sir xnty-imnty nTr aA ... (Osiris, xnty Imnty, the Great God ...)
4- ... PA-Sd ... (PA-SD ...)
5- ... (W)sir PA ... (Osiris PA ...)
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8- ... ii.n dr xft sp 4 Wsir (I have come so that I might punish your enemies, to be recited four times, "O" Osiris ...)
... wi mAa xrw m Imnt nfrt n ... (me, the vendicated in the Beautiful West of...)
... sA,k Hr mry.k Wsir. ( Your son Horus, your beloved, Osiris)
9- ... sA.i (my son)
... Dd mdw imAx ... (Recitation, the reverede)
... mry Ist (?)... (The beloved of Isis (?))
10- ... psSn.Tn Hr.i ... ( They pass by me)
ProvenanceBy 1836: Robert Hay Collection, Linplum, Scotland; 1863: to his son, Robert James Alexander Hay; 1868-1872: Way Collection, Boston (purchased by Samuel A. Way through London dealers Rollin and Feuardent, 27 Haymarket); 1872: given to the MFA by Samuel's son, C. Granville Way.