Analysis Of Tamutnefret's Coffin

Tamutnefret’s Coffin In crossword puzzles, people come across a question which is considered as a common knowledge: What is the name of the God of Sun in ancient Egypt? The name of Ra is known widely because the Egyptians are one of the nations that attracted and still does, the World’s attention because of their strong culture and ‘mysterious’ religion. In ancient Egypt, religion plays a major role in people’s daily lives. Egyptians’ beliefs in Afterworld and in Gods were so strong that they built temples, tombs and pyramids that still appall architects. They also accomplished many medical innovations to preserve their dead bodies for eternity and prepare them for Afterlife. The kings, queens, royals, priests, priestesses, rich people and
The Egyptologists know a very little about Tamutnefret but they inspected the life of other singers to result any information about her. The singers were mostly trained by their mothers. They could be from the priests’ families, elite families or even from the royal family (Teeter, 27). In tomb paintings and reliefs, the singers were depicted as holding sistrum, a musical instrument at that time, while singing in festivals or rituals. In ancient Egyptian religion, rituals were a major part of their religious obligatory and a singer’s voice was one of the components to gain the gods’ sake, protection, help on preserving Maat and discretion. That is why when a person that fulfills the requirements of rituals, dies, his/her body is prepared for eternity with a great respect. Tamutnefret’s coffin is a 1.92 meters long multi-coffin sarcophagus with different variety of details handled on. The multi-coffins were prepared for people in upper class and could be up to 8 coffins as in Tutankhamun’s. The number of coffins increase with the importance of the dead person to the society. Tamutnefret has 2 coffins. The multi-coffins represents the
At the innermost layer which is the mummy cover with two pieces, Egyptologists came across an openwork wood carving design. This design went back to the beginning of New Kingdom. As the coffins from that time were analyzed by Egyptologists, it was observed that the upper piece of the mummy cover has the arms crossed below the breasts with a huge collar. Likewise, the lower piece is designed with the openwork wood, mimicking the network of the mummy’s wrappings which is also observed in Tamutnefret’s coffin (Dunn). In the lower piece, there are again inscriptions from the top to the bottom intervened by horizontal texts. In the frames created by these interventions of texts, there are two scenes carved. One of them is Thoth offering a wedjat eye which is the symbol for physical integrity, to a seated god whose body is wrapped around with cloth resembling Osiris’s shroud-like clothing. The other scene depicts Tamutnefret as standing, praying and playing sistrum across Anubis and the four sons of Horus. At the very bottom of the mummy cover, there is a carving of Isis and Nepthys weeping for the deceased just like in the Osiris’s myth as they mourn for