Coffin Fragment card

Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool, World Museum

Coffin Fragment


Currently not on display


Carved wooden ear from an anthropoid (human-shaped) coffin. The front is naturalistically formed but the back surface is a flat plane with remains of two pegs exposed. Ears on anthropoid coffins were carved separately and would have been pegged in place on the coffin during the manufacture process. CONDITION NOTE (1998): Loss of pigment, some discolouration, wood is light and dry, surface dirt.