Coffin of Amunred
Artist
Unknown
Datecirca 715–525 BCE
MediumWood with gesso and paint
Dimensions71 x 19 x 16 3/4 in. (180.3 x 48.3 x 42.5 cm)
ClassificationsWood
Credit LineGift of the James G. Hanes Memorial Fund
Object numberG.73.8.5
On View
On viewCoffin of Amunred shows a typo made in the spelling of the name Amunred in the offering formula written in the central column.
The scribe forgot the hieroglyph for the sound D at the end of the deceased’s name. A close look at this inscription reveals the correction: a smaller, fainter, and slightly crooked hieroglyph among larger and carefully drawn signs.
[C. Rocheleau, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," 2022]ProvenanceGalerie G. Maspero, Paris, France; sold to NCMA, 1973. Published References"Recent Acquisitions" (exhibition catalogue), North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 12, no. 3 (March 1974), cat. no. 29, illus. (b-w detail) 28, 37, back of case illus. (b-w) 36, illus. (color) cover.
Gazette des Beaux-Arts VI periode, 85 (March 1975), 28.
On View 9 (1975), illus. 75.
"Mummy Cases to Go on Display," Raleigh: The News and Observer (Saturday, June 15, 1974), 5A, illus. (color) 1.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 40.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 10.
Caroline M. Rocheleau, Ancient Egyptian Art [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2012), cat. no. 19, illus. (color) 51 and 52; details (color) and translations 118–122.
North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection," (Raleigh, NC; North Carolina Museum of Art, 2024), illus. (color) 67.Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions,” June 16-August 18, 1974.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Egyptian Gallery, April 22, 1974-February 13, 1978.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection Reimagined" (Thematic Gallery: "Devotion and the Arts in the People's Collection"), June 7, 2025-present. Object Rights Statement
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