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This wooden painted coffin is for a male priest of the god Amun, the god of universal power, who was the main god at Thebes,with a temple at the Karnak complex(modern day Luxor). The name Amun means the hidden one.
Although there is now no mummy to go with the coffin fluids from the body and the embaming process will have survived in the wood. We hope that scientific testing of the traces of fluid will reveal more about the priest portrayed on the coffin lid.
The Egytpians believed that Osiris, the god of the Underworld, would judge the soul. If the person had led a bad life their soul would be destroyed, but if they had been good, Ossiris allowed them to spend eternity in the 'Land of the West', a paradise like Egypt itself. It is described in an ancient song dating from around 1300BC.
"The land of eternity is a place of right and justice which holds no fear
And all our loved ones now rest in it
As we will come to it
And as to our time on earth, remember it is but a dream
Until that time when we are all welcomed safe and sound
Into the land that loves silence"