id: 93984 accession number: 1914.561 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1914.561 updated: 2025-05-16 11:07:25.375000 Coffin of Bakenmut, c. 1000–900 BCE. Egypt, Thebes, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE), Dynasties 21–22. Gessoed and painted sycamore fig; overall: 208 x 68 cm (81 7/8 x 26 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1914.561 title: Coffin of Bakenmut title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1000–900 BCE creation date earliest: -1000 creation date latest: -900 current location: 107 Egyptian creditline: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust copyright: --- culture: Egypt, Thebes, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE), Dynasties 21–22 technique: gessoed and painted sycamore fig department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art collection: Egypt - Third Intermediate type: Funerary Equipment find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 208 x 68 cm (81 7/8 x 26 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Inaugural Exhibition opening date: 1916-06-06T05:00:00 Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt opening date: 2016-03-13T05:00:00 Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 13-June 12, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Thebes, probably Deir el-Bahri date: footnotes: citations: Purchased from Joseph Hassan Ahmed, Luxor, by Lucy Olcott Perkins through Henry W. Kent date: ?-1914 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1914- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Williams, Caroline Ransom. "The Egyptian Collection in the Museum of Art at Cleveland, Ohio," Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 5 (1918). page number: pp.177-8, No. 15, pl. XXXI url: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/030751331800500123 Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L. B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960. page number: Part 2, p. 637 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Martha L. Carter. Egyptian Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1963. page number: pp. 12-13, pls. 15-16 url: https://archive.org/details/EgyptianArt_80670/page/n15 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced (detail): p. 4 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n28 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced (detail): p. 4 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n26 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced (detail): p. 15 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n34 Johnson, Mark M. "An Introduction to the Art of Egypt," Arts and Activities 83, no. 2 (March 1978). page number: pp. 34-6, figs. 2-4 url: Kozloff, Arielle P. “Guessing the Unseen from the Seen.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 9 (December 1979): 334–346. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 343-344, fig. 20 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159651 Cleveland Museum of Art, and Arielle P. Kozloff. An Introduction to the Art of Egypt in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: [The Museum], 1983. page number: p. 13 url: Armstrong, A. H. Classical Mediterranean Spirituality: Egyptian, Greek, Roman. New York: Crossroad, 1986. page number: pl. 2 url: Myśliwiec, Karol. Royal portraiture of the dynasties XXI-XXX. Mainz am Rhein: Ph. von Zabern, 1988. page number: pls. I, II url: Niwinski, Andrzej. 21st Dynasty Coffins from Thebes: Chronological and Typological Studies. Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern, 1988. page number: p. 134, no. 160 url: Walsem, Reijer van. The Coffin of Djedmonthuiufankh in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden. Leiden: [Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden], 1988. page number: pp. 55n.31, 57n.44, 59n.57, 61-62, 64-65, 68-69, 84, 90-91, 93-94, 96, 101, 103, 108 (erroneously for Cl 2 [255]), 109, 112-14 and n. 141, 115 nn. 146 and 147, 118-19, 124, 130n.204, 135, 138, 142n.265, 148-49, 151, 155, 159n.326, 167n.364, 169, 173, 175, 177n.375, 187, 194-95, 197n.452, 210, 256, 259, 262, 264, 270n.820, 271, 273, 287, 289, 290, 292, 293nn.903, 905, and 911, 294nn.921-23, 297, 304-6 and n. 982, 309-10, 314n.1034, 315 and nn. 1035, 1036, and 1040, 317- 18, 320 and n. 1087, 338, 346 n. 1286, 360n.1437, figs. 43, 45, 46, 60, 153, 173, 205, 209, 211, 434, 477, 484 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 4 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n20 Berman, Lawrence M. "La Collection Egyptienne du Cleveland Museum of Art," Bulletin de la Société française d'égyptologie (BSFE) 134 (October 1995). page number: p. 17, fig. 2 url: Berman, Lawrence M. "Royal Allegory," Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 36, no. 3 (March 1996). page number: p. 8 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1996-03/page/8/ Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 314-324, cat. no. 251; reproduced: P. 58-59 url: Berman, Lawrence M., "New Look at Ancient Egypt", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 39 no. 01, January 1999 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 7 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1999-01/page/6 Gleisser, Benjamin, " Mystery of the Nile," Northern Ohio Live (September 1999). page number: p. 22 url: Myśliwiec, Karol. The twilight of ancient Egypt: first millennium B.C.E. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000. page number: Reproduced: p. 5, fig. 3 url: May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: No. 8, pp. 12-13, cover url: Málek, Jaromír. Egypt: 4000 Years of Art. 2003. page number: p. 116 & 227 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 74-75 url: Vandenbeusch, Marie, Aude Semat, and Margaret Maitland. Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art ; London : The British Museum, 2016. page number: Mentioned: p.86, p. 160; Reproduced: p. 87, fig.50 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1914.561/1914.561_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1914.561/1914.561_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1914.561/1914.561_full.tif