Sunday 20/July/2025 – 05:08 AM
The Jordan Person Museum in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam, displays an exceptional artifact that is one of the remains of a human coffin dating back to the twenty -first family, and it represents part of the right shoulder of an anthropic human coffin, which was implemented in an elaborate artistic style that reflects the depth of religious and symbolic beliefs in ancient Egypt.
Decorative details rich in symbols
The piece is rectangular in shape, and is made of wood covered with plaster, and is decorated on both sides, colored decorations, on the external side. Ritual scenes were engraved in a prominent artistic form, with a chess decraments and vertical texts, and extends on the upper edge of the friez of the feathers and the sacred sacred cobra.
In the right scene, the winged scarab appears as it pushes the twisted sun disk with a double cobra, while it is based on a boat guarded by two gods with a snake head and a mummy body, which reflects the symbolism of the Baath and eternity.
In the left scene, the deity is embodied by the head of the Abu Munjel bird, which offers loyalty to the “Ain Ojat Al -Mansha”, where the royal cobra is dual crown, and the scene is surrounded by a row of the Holy Cobra, in an affirmation of the sanctity of the eye and divine protection.
As for the inner side of the piece, it carries a unique artistic scene that shows a god in the form of a mummy, sitting on a throne decorated inside an artistic architectural cabin based on columns from the symbol of the grandfather and the papyrus, in a scene that combines strength, stability and grow And purity.
This piece represents a spiritual and spiritual window on the worlds of the dead in ancient Egypt, and it is a material testimony of the accuracy of the ancient Egyptian artist in employing the symbol and legend to communicate the concepts of immortality, protection and faith in other life.
