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Inner Coffin of Djedmut
Inner Coffin of Djedmut

Inner Coffin of Djedmut

Artist Unknown
Datecirca 715–525 BCE
MediumWood with linen, gesso, and paint
Dimensions71 x 21 1/8 x 7 1/2 in. (180.3 x 53.7 x 19.1 cm)
ClassificationsWood
Credit LineGift of the James G. Hanes Memorial Fund
Object numberG.73.8.4
On View
On view
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. 28, illus. (b-w) 34, (b-w detail) 35, interior of case illus. (color) 4.

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) 41.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (color) 11.

North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Spring 1986), illus. (b-w detail) 29.

Mary Ellen Soles, entry for Coffin of Djed Mout, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 18-19, illus. (color) 18, detail (color) 10.

Caroline M. Rocheleau, "Dusting Off the Years: The Thematic Reinstallation of the Egyptian Gallery," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (March/April 2007), briefly discussed 13, illus. (color) 12-13.

Caroline M. Rocheleau, entry for Inner Coffin of Djed Mut, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 36, illus. (color) 37.

Caroline M. Rocheleau, Ancient Egyptian Art [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2012), cat. no. 20, illus. (color) 57 and 58; details (color) and translations 123–141.
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 4, 1974- February 13, 1978

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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