King Antef, (Sekhemre-wepmaat)
Rishi type coffin, i.e. adorned with a feather design.
Antef is shown wearing Nemes, which were a striped headcloth worn by pharaohs. It covered the whole crown and back of the head and nape of the neck (sometimes also extending a little way down the back) and had lappets, two large flaps which hung down behind the ears and in front of both shoulders.
Decorations include the Ouadjet (cobra), and Nekhbet (vulture, spread wings), and Ousekh (necklace)
Height : 2000 mm, width : 570 mm.
Wood, alabaster, obsidian, inlaid, painted, gilded, Dra Aboul el-Naga, West Thebes , Crypt of Osiris .
Louvre Museum
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