Week 46: Nov. 17, 2024

Outer Coffin of Meret-it-es, Late Period to Ptolemaic Period, 30th Dynasty to early Ptolemaic Dynasty, ca. 380-250 B.C.E., Wood, pigment and gesso

Outside looking in…

This display is brilliantly set up so that, as you turn and look about the space, you see all the different layers that went together to send this individual on to the next world. It occurred to me how much of the museum - and how many of my photos had something to do with death. Urns, sarcophagi, the coffin, memorial statues. So much art used to remember, celebrate, or honor the dead.