{"data": {"id": 94188, "accession_number": "1914.714", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Coffin of Nesykhonsu, c. 976\u2013889 BCE. Egypt, Thebes, Third Intermediate (1069\u2013715 BCE), Dynasties 21\u201322. Gessoed and painted sycamore fig; overall: 70 cm (27 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1914.714", "current_location": "107 Egyptian", "title": "Coffin of Nesykhonsu", "creation_date": "c. 976\u2013889 BCE", "creation_date_earliest": -976, "creation_date_latest": -889, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Egypt, Thebes, Third Intermediate (1069\u2013715 BCE), Dynasties 21\u201322"], "technique": "gessoed and painted sycamore fig", "support_materials": [], "department": "Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art", "collection": "Egypt - Third Intermediate", "type": "Funerary Equipment", "measurements": "Overall: 70 cm (27 9/16 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"width": 0.7, "width_inch": 27, "width_inch_fraction": 0.5625, "length": 2.11, "length_inch": 83, "length_inch_fraction": 0.0625}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 317001, "title": "Inaugural Exhibition", "description": "<i>Inaugural Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).", "opening_date": "1916-06-06T05:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "Thebes, probably Deir el-Bahri.", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "Purchased from Joseph Hassan Ahmed, Luxor, by Lucy Olcott Perkins through Henry W. Kent", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?-1914", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1914-", "sortorder": 3}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Two of Nesykhonsu's titles, \"Lady of the House\" and \"Singer of the Choir of Mut the Great,\" are written on the outside of the coffin.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Egyptian coffins told stories and illustrated spells to help the deceased transition safely to the afterlife. Inside Nesykhonsu's coffin there are two jackals, one facing right and the other left, near the top. Here, the jackal represents the powerful deity Anubis, the god of the afterlife and embalming.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60778593"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1914.714-coffin-of-nesykhonsu"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition, June 6-September 20, 1916</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.", "page_number": "No. 87, p. 213", "url": null}, {"citation": "Williams, Caroline Ransom. \"The Egyptian Collection in the Museum of Art at Cleveland, Ohio.\" <em>The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology</em> <em>(JEA)</em> 5 (1918).", "page_number": "pp. 272-3", "url": "https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/030751331800500123"}, {"citation": "Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L. B. Moss. <em>Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings.</em> Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960.", "page_number": "p. 637", "url": null}, {"citation": "Cooney, John D. \"Siren and Ba, Birds of a Feather.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 55, no. 8 (1968).", "page_number": "p. 265, fig. 8", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152230"}, {"citation": "Niwinski, Andrzej. 21st Dynasty Coffins from Thebes: Chronological and Typological Studies. Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern, 1988.", "page_number": "pp. 134-5, no. 161", "url": null}, {"citation": "Walsem, Reijer van. <em>The Coffin of Djedmonthuiufankh in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden</em>. Leiden: [Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden], 1988.", "page_number": "pp. 56, 57n.44, 58, 59n.57, 62, 64-65, 68n.90, 84, 91, 93, 96, 99, 101, 103, 106, 108 (erroneously as Cl 1 [251]), 112-14 and nn. 142-43, 118-19, 124, 126-28, 130n.204, 135, 138, 141n.260, 150n.290, 151n.293, 159n.326, 167n.364, 169, 175, 187, 188n.433, 194, 197n.453, 210, 256, 259, 262, 264, 270n.820, 271-72 and n. 825, 287, 289, 292, 293nn.911-13, 294nn.922 and 924, 297, 304-5, 337-38, 357n.1412, figs. 36, 44, 46, 92, 110, 132, 182, 202, 203, 208, 250, 251, 340, 432, 474", "url": null}, {"citation": "Kozloff, Arielle P., Betsy Morrell Bryan, Lawrence Michael Berman, and Elisabeth Delange. <em>Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1992.", "page_number": "p. 334, fig. XI.6", "url": null}, {"citation": "Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Boha\u010d.<em> Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 325-335, Color p. 60; Mentioned: p. 325-337", "url": null}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1914.714", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1914.714/1914.714_web.jpg", "width": "758", "height": "893", "filesize": "356370", "filename": "1914.714_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1914.714/1914.714_print.jpg", "width": "2887", "height": "3400", "filesize": "6760652", "filename": "1914.714_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1914.714/1914.714_full.tif", "width": "5439", "height": "6404", "filesize": "104525284", "filename": "1914.714_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 94188, "creators": [], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "1914-01-01T00:00:00", "sortable_date": -976, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "c. 976\u2013889 BCE", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "cover", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": true, "updated_at": "2026-09-12 11:31:21.772000"}}