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accession number: 1914.714
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Coffin of Nesykhonsu, c. 976–889 BCE. Egypt, Thebes, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE), Dynasties 21–22. 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
title: Coffin of Nesykhonsu
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creation date: c. 976–889 BCE
creation date earliest: -976
creation date latest: -889
current location: 107 Egyptian
creditline: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
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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
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measurements: Overall: 70 cm (27 9/16 in.)
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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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Thebes, probably Deir el-Bahri.
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Purchased from Joseph Hassan Ahmed, Luxor, by Lucy Olcott Perkins through Henry W. Kent
date: ?-1914
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1914-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition, June 6-September 20, 1916. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.
page number: No. 87, p. 213
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Williams, Caroline Ransom. "The Egyptian Collection in the Museum of Art at Cleveland, Ohio." The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (JEA) 5 (1918).
page number: pp. 272-3
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: p. 637
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Cooney, John D. "Siren and Ba, Birds of a Feather." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 55, no. 8 (1968).
page number: p. 265, fig. 8
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152230
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
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Walsem, Reijer van. The Coffin of Djedmonthuiufankh in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden. 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
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Kozloff, Arielle P., Betsy Morrell Bryan, Lawrence Michael Berman, and Elisabeth Delange. Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1992.
page number: p. 334, fig. XI.6
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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: Reproduced: p. 325-335, Color p. 60; Mentioned: p. 325-337
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