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Rishi Coffin
Rishi coffins are funerary coffins adorned with a feather design, which were used in Ancient Egypt. They are typical of the Egyptian Second Intermediate Period, circa 1650 to 1550 BC. The name comes from ريشة (''risha''), Arabic for "feather". During the Egyptian Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom, coffins were rectangular. The first coffins in anthropoid (human) shape only appear in the 12th Dynasty. These designs copied mummies showing a human head and the body without arms and legs as if they are wrapped in linen. The coffins were always in several sets with the outer coffin being rectangular. Perhaps already in the 13th Dynasty, these anthropoid coffins were decorated all over with a feather design and are no longer placed within an outer, rectangular coffin. These are the first rishi coffins. The earliest example mentioned in literature is the coffin of the ''scribe of the great enclosure'' Neferhotep, dating to the 13th Dynasty.Gianluca Miniaci, Stephen Quirke: ''Mariett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Quirke
Stephen Quirke is an Egyptologist. He is the current Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology at University College London. He has worked at the British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ... (1989–1998) and since 1999 at the Petrie Museum in London. He has published several books, some of them translated into other languages. Works *''Hieroglyphs and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt'', London 1996, *''The Cult of Ra: Sun-worship in Ancient Egypt: Sun-worship in Ancient Egypt from the Pyramids to Cleopatra'', London 2001, *''Who Were the Pharaohs?: A Guide to their Names, Reigns and Dynasties'', London 2010, *''Hidden Hands: Egyptian Workforces in Petrie Excavation Archives, 1880–1924'' (Duckworth Egyptology Series), London 2010 *''Birth tus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
