Face of a coffin ca. 945-712 BC Third Intermediate Period This face once belonged to an anthropoid wood coffin decorated with plaster painted in polychromy. The sweeping white wings of a vulture curve around to protect the small face, which is dominated by large eyes and surrounded by an oversize wig with blue and gold striped lappets. The head is also adorned by a wide fillet of flower petals decorated with a band. A section of a beaded broad collar probably filled the space below the chin, now exposed down to raw wood. Directly above the bridge of the nose, a beetle pushes a red sun disk, representing the daily journey of the sun god Re across the sky. Normally the classic form of a scarab beetle would be depicted here, but this one appears almost spiderlike. The northern area of Upper Egypt drew on a strong tradition of Libyan heritage during the time this coffin was made, and it is possible that the artist who produced it knew what was supposed to decorate the lid--a scarab beetle-

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Face of a coffin ca. 945-712 BC Third Intermediate Period This face once belonged to an anthropoid wood coffin decorated with plaster painted in polychromy. The sweeping white wings of a vulture curve around to protect the small face, which is dominated by large eyes and surrounded by an oversize wig with blue and gold striped lappets. The head is also adorned by a wide fillet of flower petals decorated with a band. A section of a beaded broad collar probably filled the space below the chin, now exposed down to raw wood. Directly above the bridge of the nose, a beetle pushes a red sun disk, representing the daily journey of the sun god Re across the sky. Normally the classic form of a scarab beetle would be depicted here, but this one appears almost spiderlike. The northern area of Upper Egypt drew on a strong tradition of Libyan heritage during the time this coffin was made, and it is possible that the artist who produced it knew what was supposed to decorate the lid--a scarab beetle-

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