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Material : Painted Wood
Width : 59 Height : 189
Found in : Deir Al-bahari , Cachette at Bab Al-gasus (1891)
Period : Third Intermediate Period
Dynasty: XXI
Belonged_to: Pakhar
Archeologist : G . DARESSY
Dating back to the Third Intermediate Period , this sarcophagus was found by G . Daressy in 1891 in the Tomb of the "Horse Door" in the cachette at Bab Al-gasus in Deir Al-Bahari together with more than 150 sarcophaguses belonging to the priests of Amun at Karnak . Made from painted wood , this richly decorated sarcophagus belongs to Pakhar , a priest from the Twenty-first Dynasty responsible for the burning of incense . Between the mummy's legs , in one of the sarcophagi was found a copy of the Book of the Dead as was conventional during the Twenty-first Dynasty .
The lids of the priest's anthropoid (mummy-shaped) sarcophagi (right) pictures the image of the deceased totally wrapped with only their face , neck , and fists visible . The body is decorated with vertical rows of hieroglyphics intersected by other horizontal ones containing prayers and spells of the formula of offerings on behalf of the deceased . The lower section is embellished with scenes picturing the deceased before a number of enthroned (top) and standing deities , such as Osiris , Horus the falcon , Maat (goddess of justice) , the winged Isis , and Anubis as well as the nine deities of the Ennead of Heliopolis . Gracefully hanging down from the neck is a broad polychrome shoulder-to-shoulder collar fastened to the shoulders with falcon-headed clasps .
In the image , there are two outermost sarcophaguses (once housing other inner receptacles) . The bottom side of the one on the left is decorated with a large depiction of the winged Isis wearing a long elaborate tunic and a fine multi-stringed necklace . The headdress over her head is decorated with two cobras crowned with the sun disc . Further up , she wears a horned solar disc with two cobras in the center , over a modius of a frieze of cobras . The outer sarcophagus (to the right) is decorated from inside with depictions of the Ba bird of the deceased; two rectangular cartouches; the feather of Maat; a winged cobra crowned with the solar disc; as well as a drawing of Horus the falcon holding a long flail .
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