Lid of a Painted Wooden Coffin (GV 175)

The lid of a wooden coffin from the Ptolemaic period (c. 300–100 BCE) is vibrantly painted. In the center, beneath a magnificent broad collar, the god of the dead, Anubis, is depicted at a bier upon which the mummy of the deceased rests. In the scene above, Osiris presides as king over the dead—a judgment process that was, naturally, intended to result in a favorable outcome for the coffin's owner. The piece originates from a private collection and was provided to the Egyptian Museum Bonn on loan from the Museum of the City of Grevenbroich.