hq picture Innermost Gold Coffin of Tutankhamun

 Innermost Gold Coffin of Tutankhamun

The innermost coffin of Tutankhamun is is a highly significant artifact from ancient Egypt. It is made of a solid gold and covered with incised decorations and inscriptions inside and outside, with the names and epitaph of the deceased king and protective texts. It is inlaid with semiprecious stones and coloured glass.

The coffin’s shape is that of Osiris holding the sacred insignia, the heka scepter and the flail. The vulture and the uraeus, or rearing cobra, protect his forehead. The divine beard is made of gold inlaid with blue glass.

hq picture   Innermost Gold Coffin of Tutankhamun. Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 60671

The innermost coffin of Tutankhamun is intricately decorated with various symbols and hieroglyphs, and it was designed to protect and preserve the body of the young king Tutankhamun. Deities of Upper and Lower Egypt protect the body of the coffin with their wings.

The innermost coffin, known as the solid gold coffin or the innermost shrine, is made entirely of gold and weighs approximately 110.4 kilograms (243 pounds). Inside it lay the king’s mummy whose head was covered with the iconic gold mask of the boy king. This is the third and innermost of three mummiform coffins of Tutankhamun.