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Anointed with oils and spices and protected with amulets, this linen-wrapped body was placed in a series of nesting coffins; the vividly painted cartonnage was the innermost shell. Across the surface of the mummy case, inscriptions and painted scenes and symbols identify the deceased\u2014Paankhaenamun\u2014and proclaim his wish to live well in the afterlife. Another inscription records that he was the doorkeeper of the temple of Amun. The names and titles on the coffin suggest that he lived at Thebes. The central scene depicts the presentation of the deceased by the falcon-headed deity Horus to Osiris, the ruler of eternity (shown, as was common, as a mummy). Other divinities help the deceased in his journey to the afterlife. Despite the youthful features of the gilt face, X-rays reveal that Paankhaenamun was middle-aged.<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"170.2 \u00d7 43.2 \u00d7 31.7 cm (67 \u00d7 17 \u00d7 12 1\/2 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":31,"width":43,"height":170,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Cartonnage, gold leaf, pigment, and mummified human remains","inscriptions":null,"credit_line":"W. Moses Willner Fund","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Art Institute of Chicago, Thirty-Second Annual Report: June 1, 1910\u2013June 1, 1911 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1911), 19, 62.\n\nThomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1923), 7, 12, 13 (ill.), 14\u201315, 16, 19n2, 69, 124.\n\nBertha Porter and Rosalind Moss, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings, vol. 1, The Theban Necropolis, pt. 2, Royal Tombs and Smaller Cemeteries (Oxford: Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, 1964), 824.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, The Essential Guide (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1993), 93.\n\nKaren Alexander, \u201cThe New Galleries of Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,\u201d Minerva 5, no. 3 (1994), 30, fig. 3.\n\nEmily Teeter, \u201cEgyptian Art,\u201d in \u201cAncient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,\u201d special issue, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 20, no. 1 (1994): no. 7, 22, 23 (ill.), 25, backcover illustration.\n\n<a href=https:\/\/archive.artic.edu\/cleo><em>Cleopatra: A Multi-Media Guide to the Ancient World<\/em><\/a> (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997).\n\nDebra N. Mancoff and James N. Wood, Treasures from the Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood, Director and President, with commentaries by Debra N. Mancoff (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2000), 68.\n\nEmily Teeter, Karen B. Alexander, and Mary Greuel, Art of the Ancient Mediterranean World: Egypt, Greece, Italy, with contributions by Edmund Barry Gaither et al., teacher manual (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2001), 12, fig. 2; 21, image 4, fig. 7; 22\u201323, fig. 10; 24.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, The Essential Guide, revised edition (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2003), 93.\n\nGayle Gibson, \u201cThe Lady from Thebes: An Afterword,\u201d Rotunda 38, no. 2 (Winter 2004\/2005): 20, 21 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, The Essential Guide (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 80.\n\nEmily Teeter and Janet Johnson, eds., The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt, Oriental Institute Museum Publications, no. 29, (Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2009), 19, fig. 7.\n\nKaren B. Alexander, \u201cFrom Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,\u201d in Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago, by Karen Manchester, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2012), 26.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, The Essential Guide (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), 63.\n\nEmily Teeter, \u201cNew Mummy Project for the University of Chicago and the Art Institute of Chicago,\u201d The Oriental Institute News & Notes 222 (2014): 12\u201313.\n\nJohn H. Taylor, \u201cTwo Lost Cartonnage Cases of the Early Twenty-Second Dynasty,\u201d in A True Scribe of Abydos: Essays on First Millennium Egypt in Honour of Anthony Leahy, ed. Claus Jurman, Bettina Bader, and David A. Aston (Leuven: Peeters, 2017), 454, 456, 457n41, 458, 466, 476, fig. 5.\n\nEmily Teeter and Ashley F. Arico, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53269\/9780865593213\/101\"><em>\u201cCat. 99 Coffin and Mummy of Paankhaenamun,\u201d<\/em><\/a> in Ancient Egyptian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago by Emily Teeter and Ashley F. Arico, ed. Ashley F. Arico (Art Institute of Chicago, 2025).\n\nJames Rondeau (ed.), Highlights of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2026), cat. no. 5, p. 28 (ill.).","exhibition_history":"Periodic exhibition from 1911-1994; Henry Crown Gallery in 1960s - 1970s.\n\nEgyptian Gallery # 9 and 10, circa 1923.\n\nEgyptian Gallery # 10, circa 1935.\n\nEgyptian Gallery # 1, circa 1956.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Gallery 101A, The Classical Collection: Early Accessions, October 8, 1986-February 27, 1987.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Gallery 141, Grave Goods from Ancient Cultures, November 9, 1991-May 17, 1992.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 154A, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Feb. 11, 2022 - present.","provenance_text":"The Art Institute of Chicago, acquired in 1910.","edition":null,"publishing_verification_level":"Web Cataloged","internal_department_id":43,"fiscal_year":1915,"fiscal_year_deaccession":null,"is_public_domain":true,"is_zoomable":true,"max_zoom_window_size":-1,"copyright_notice":null,"has_multimedia_resources":true,"has_educational_resources":true,"has_advanced_imaging":false,"colorfulness":0,"color":{"h":41,"l":54,"s":41,"percentage":0.00034478696227752646,"population":160},"latitude":null,"longitude":null,"latlon":null,"is_on_view":true,"on_loan_display":null,"gallery_title":null,"gallery_id":null,"nomisma_id":null,"artwork_type_title":"Funerary Object","artwork_type_id":27,"department_title":"Arts of Africa","department_id":"PC-1","artist_id":37541,"artist_title":"Ancient Egyptian","alt_artist_ids":[],"artist_ids":[37541],"artist_titles":["Ancient Egyptian"],"category_ids":["PC-109","PC-831","PC-1"],"category_titles":["Art Institute Icons","Essentials","Arts of Africa"],"term_titles":["cartonnage","twenty-second dynasty","painting (image making)","mummies","coffin","mummy goods","gold leaf","leaf (metal)","metal","inorganic material","pigment","colorant","third intermediate period","funerary art","ancient art","ancient","egyptian","plastering","human remains","carving","Hieroglyphs","gods (deities)","goddesses"],"style_id":"TM-4396","style_title":"twenty-second dynasty","alt_style_ids":["TM-4394","TM-8542","TM-4805"],"style_ids":["TM-4396","TM-4394","TM-8542","TM-4805"],"style_titles":["twenty-second dynasty","third intermediate period","ancient","egyptian"],"classification_id":"TM-11810","classification_title":"coffin","alt_classification_ids":["TM-1518","TM-1392"],"classification_ids":["TM-11810","TM-1518","TM-1392"],"classification_titles":["coffin","mummy goods","ancient art"],"subject_id":"TM-12070","alt_subject_ids":["TM-8642","TM-12185","TM-12066","TM-12067"],"subject_ids":["TM-12070","TM-8642","TM-12185","TM-12066","TM-12067"],"subject_titles":["mummies","funerary art","Hieroglyphs","gods (deities)","goddesses"],"material_id":"TM-2508","alt_material_ids":["TM-2425","TM-2426","TM-2568","TM-2600","TM-2509","TM-3239","TM-11883"],"material_ids":["TM-2508","TM-2425","TM-2426","TM-2568","TM-2600","TM-2509","TM-3239","TM-11883"],"material_titles":["cartonnage","gold leaf","leaf (metal)","metal","inorganic material","pigment","colorant","human remains"],"technique_id":"TM-3891","alt_technique_ids":["TM-4006","TM-3863"],"technique_ids":["TM-3891","TM-4006","TM-3863"],"technique_titles":["painting (image making)","plastering","carving"],"theme_titles":["Art Institute Icons","Essentials"],"image_id":"93270aaf-16a5-1604-c6c8-0f3c003eb7a1","alt_image_ids":["7afd5045-3b42-1902-1253-36ffe9a2307d","e3e81567-dd88-6277-dcaf-cec53b453f2c","2e074049-ba1e-5ca2-ace5-ffaf02316f43"],"document_ids":["03c5410e-ff98-49f2-7080-eecdb045168f","358925f1-cb7d-2a63-04c3-956c0dc0ed11"],"sound_ids":["03c5410e-ff98-49f2-7080-eecdb045168f"],"video_ids":[],"text_ids":["358925f1-cb7d-2a63-04c3-956c0dc0ed11"],"section_ids":[],"section_titles":[],"site_ids":[99],"suggest_autocomplete_boosted":"Coffin and Mummy of Paankhaenamun","suggest_autocomplete_all":[{"input":["1910.238"],"contexts":{"groupings":["accession"]}},{"input":["Coffin and Mummy of Paankhaenamun"],"weight":23759,"contexts":{"groupings":["title"]}}],"source_updated_at":"2026-08-12T11:39:06-05:00","updated_at":"2026-09-01T20:56:38-05:00","timestamp":"2026-09-01T23:15:37-05:00"},"info":{"license_text":"The `description` field in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC-By) and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. 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