--- created: 2025-04-17 author: - first_name: valentina - last_name: salcedo paparoni - affiliation: staatliche museen zu berlin. stiftung preußischer kulturbesitz - affiliation_url: https://lobid.org/organisations/DE-MUS-710014 - first_name: matthias - last_name: lang - affiliation: bonn center for digital humanities. bonn university - affiliation_url: https://d-nb.info/gnd/36150-1 type: documentation type_url: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300054638 documentation_license: CC BY-SA 4.0 documentation_license_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ # This is a YAML front matter block in a Markdown (.md) file. # The file is saved as plain text and can be viewed in any standard Markdown viewer. --- # Funerary ensemble of the Lady Tairkap - **description:** Central components of the burial of the Lady Tairkap (TꜢ-ỉ.ỉr-kꜢp), consisting of her mummy, a flat canopic chest, and two coffins, both of anthropoid shape. While the small canopic chest is of an unusual type, the two coffins are typical examples of their place and time, i.e. Thebes in the 7th century BCE. At a closer look, however, their textual decoration shows some features that have no direct parallel to this day. They thereby testify to the high degree of diversity in choice, arrangement, and modification of traditional elements of decoration which makes each set of funerary equipment individual. The funerary ensemble was brought to Berlin in 1822 as parts of the collection of Johann von Minutoli , together with the comparable one of Pestjenfi (ÄM 50–54), probably a close relative of Tairkap. - **described_by:** Bonn Center for Digital Humanities. Bonn University - **date-time:** 2020-08-31 ## Layer_01: Outer Coffin - **description:** As for the inner coffin, the shape of the outer anthropoid coffin is typical for its time, that is without a socle and without a rounded passage from the flat bottom to the sides of the case. - **described_by:** Bonn Center for Digital Humanities. Bonn University - **date-time:** 2020-08-31 - **inventory Number:** ÄM 3 ### Outer Coffin Lid - **titel_de:** *Äußerer, anthropomorpher Sarg der Tairkap (Deckel)* - **titel_en:** *Anthropoid Outer Coffin of a Woman Named Ta-ir-kap (Lid)* - **time-span:** 746 - 525 B.C. - **object_measurement_feather_joints_heigth:** 68 - **object_measurement_heigth:** 54 - **object_measurement_length:** 213 - **object_measurement_width:** 78 - **object_measurement_weigth:** 80 - **wood_joints:** feather joints - **size_dimension_units_for_distance:** centimeters - **size_dimension_units_for weight:** kilograms - **ceremonial_containers:** coffins - **object_material:** wood - **location:** Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - **isil:** DE-MUS-015418 - **inventory Number:** ÄM 3/01 - **acquisition_year:** 1823 - **provenance:** https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.68959#0004 - **permalink:** https://id.smb.museum/object/779317 ### Digital Object_Outer Coffin Lid - **SMB-SPK_digital_object_ID:** - **digitized_by:** Bonn Center for Digital Humanities. Bonn University - **date-time:** 2020-08-31 - **photographic_equipment:** digital camera - **photographic_hardware:** Nikon D750 - **texture_generation:** Nikon D750 - **texture_resolution_width:** 6016 - **texture_resolution_height:** 4016 - **dimension_units_for_resolution:** pixels - **digital_object_processes_techniques:** photogrammetry - **digital_object_type:** photogrammetric 3D-Mesh - **software:** - Agisoft Metashape - Blender - **digital_object_data_measurement_faces:** 4.718 millions - **digital_object_data_measurement_verts:** 2.360 millions - **digital_object_derivate_by:** Bonn Center for Digital Humanities. Bonn University - **digital_object_derivate_software:** - Agisoft Metashape - Substance Designer - Blender - **digital_object_derivate_data_measurement_faces:** 0.048 millions - **digital_object_derivate_data_measurement_verts:** 0.048 millions - **documented_by:** Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz - **data_set_license:** CC BY-SA 4.0 ### Outer Coffin Bottom - **titel_de:** *Äußerer, anthropomorpher Sarg der Tairkap (Wanne)* - **titel_en:** *Anthropoid Outer Coffin of a Woman Named Ta-ir-kap (Bottom)* - **time-span:** 746 - 525 B.C. - **object_measurement_heigth:** 52 - **object_measurement_length:** 208 - **object_measurement_width:** 78 - **object_measurement_weigth:** 87 - **size_dimension_units_for_distance:** centimeters - **size_dimension_units_for weight:** kilograms - **ceremonial_containers:** coffins - **object_material:** wood - **location:** Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - **isil:** DE-MUS-015418 - **inventory Number:** ÄM 3/02 - **acquisition_year:** 1823 - **provenance:** https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.68959#0004 ### Digital Object_Outer Coffin Bottom - **SMB-SPK_digital_object_ID:** - **digitized_by:** Bonn Center for Digital Humanities. Bonn University - **date-time:** 2020-08-31 - **photographic_equipment:** digital camera - **photographic_hardware:** Nikon D750 - **texture_generation:** Nikon D750 - **texture_resolution_width:** 6016 - **texture_resolution_height:** 4016 - **dimension_units_for_resolution:** pixels - **digital_object_processes_techniques:** photogrammetry - **digital_object_type:** photogrammetric 3D-Mesh - **software:** - Agisoft Metashape - Blender - **digital_object_data_measurement_faces:** 3.078 millions - **digital_object_data_measurement_verts:** 1.539 millions - **digital_object_derivate_by:** Bonn Center for Digital Humanities. Bonn University - **digital_object_derivate_software:** - Agisoft Metashape - Substance Designer - Blender - **digital_object_derivate_data_measurement_faces:** 0.046 millions - **digital_object_derivate_data_measurement_verts:** 0.046 millions - **documented_by:** Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz - **data_set_license:** CC BY-SA 4.0 ## Layer_02: Inner Coffin - **description:** Tairkaps inner coffin is a fine example of richly decorated coffins of the Late Period. As is typical for inner coffins, it represents the mummiform deceased standing on a socle like a statue. The pictures and inscriptions could be chosen and arranged in many different ways, but in short, the coffin may be called ‘typical’ for its time. Still, the choice of texts, especially on the inner sides of lid and case, is remarkable and deserves closer attention. All texts inside have been taken from the so-called Book of the Dead. On the head, an extract from spell 99 evokes air for breathing which explains its position. All other inscriptions strictly follow the sequence of spells as found on Book of the Dead papyri from the 26th dynasty onwards, here spells 43–49 (lid) and 50–54 (case). The sequence shows that lid and case were not seen as separate objects once the coffin was closed. - **described_by:** Bonn Center for Digital Humanities. Bonn University - **date-time:** 2020-08-31 - inventory Number: ÄM 4 ### Inner Coffin Lid - **titel_de:** *Innerer, anthropomorpher Sarg der Tairkap (Deckel)* - **titel_en:** *Anthropoid Inner Coffin of a Woman Named Ta-ir-kap (Lid)* - **time-span:** 746 - 525 B.C. - **object_measurement_heigth:** 28 - **object_measurement_length:** 178.5 - **object_measurement_width:** 53 - **object_measurement_weigth:** 33 - **size_dimension_units_for_distance:** centimeters - **size_dimension_units_for weight:** kilograms - **ceremonial_containers:** coffins - **object_material:** wood - **location:** Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - **isil:** DE-MUS-015418 - **inventory Number:** ÄM 4/01 - **acquisition_year:** 1823 - **provenance:** https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.68959#0004 - **permalink:** https://id.smb.museum/object/779867 ### Digital Object_Inner Coffin Lid - **SMB-SPK_digital_object_ID:** - **digitized_by:** Bonn Center for Digital Humanities. Bonn University - **date-time:** 2020-08-31 - **photographic_equipment:** digital camera - **photographic_hardware:** Nikon D750 - **texture_generation:** Nikon D750 - **texture_resolution_width:** 6016 - **texture_resolution_height:** 4016 - **dimension_units_for_resolution:** pixels - **digital_object_processes_techniques:** photogrammetry - **digital_object_type:** photogrammetric 3D-Mesh - **software:** - Agisoft Metashape - Blender - **digital_object_data_measurement_faces:** 4.073 millions - **digital_object_data_measurement_verts:** 2.037 millions - **digital_object_derivate_by:** Bonn Center for Digital Humanities. Bonn University - **digital_object_derivate_software:** - Agisoft Metashape - Substance Designer - Blender - **digital_object_derivate_data_measurement_faces:** 0.045 millions - **digital_object_derivate_data_measurement_verts:** 0.045 millions - **documented_by:** Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz - **data_set_license:** CC BY-SA 4.0 ### Inner Coffin Bottom - **titel_de:** *Innerer, anthropomorpher Sarg der Tairkap (Wanne)* - **titel_en:** *Anthropoid Inner Coffin of a Woman Named Ta-ir-kap (Bottom)* - **time-span:** 746 - 525 B.C. - **object_measurement_heigth:** 20 - **object_measurement_length:** 178.5 - **object_measurement_width:** 53 - **object_measurement_weigth:** 28 - **size_dimension_units_for_distance:** centimeters - **size_dimension_units_for weight:** kilograms - **ceremonial_containers:** coffins - **object_material:** wood - **location:** Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - **isil:** DE-MUS-015418 - **inventory Number:** ÄM 4/02 - **acquisition_year:** 1823 - **provenance:** https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.68959#0004 ### Digital Object_Inner Coffin Bottom - **SMB-SPK_digital_object_ID:** - **digitized_by:** Bonn Center for Digital Humanities. Bonn University - **date-time:** 2020-08-31 - **photographic_equipment:** digital camera - **photographic_hardware:** Nikon D750 - **texture_generation:** Nikon D750 - **texture_resolution_width:** 6016 - **texture_resolution_height:** 4016 - **dimension_units_for_resolution:** pixels - **digital_object_processes_techniques:** photogrammetry - **digital_object_type:** photogrammetric 3D-Mesh - **software:** - Agisoft Metashape - Blender - **digital_object_data_measurement_faces:** 3.697 millions - **digital_object_data_measurement_verts:** 1.849 millions - **digital_object_derivate_by:** Bonn Center for Digital Humanities. Bonn University - **digital_object_derivate_software:** - Agisoft Metashape - Substance Designer - Blender - **digital_object_derivate_data_measurement_faces:** 0.160 millions - **digital_object_derivate_data_measurement_verts:** 0.080 millions - **documented_by:** Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz - **data_set_license:** CC BY-SA 4.0 ## Canopic chest - **description:** From the Old Kingdom onwards, some of the inner organs of the deceased were mummified and preserved in four small containers outside the coffin. Normally, these four canopic jars stood together in a small shrine, but here it is a flat box which, contained the mummified packages without jars and was put below the foot-end of the inner coffin in the outer one. - **described_by:** Bonn Center for Digital Humanities. Bonn University - **date-time:** 2020-08-31 - inventory Number: ÄM 6 ### Layer_03: Canopic chest Lid - **titel_de:** *Kanopenkasten für Eingeweide der Tairkap (Deckel)* - **titel_en:** *Canopic Chest for the internal organs of Ta-ir-kap (Lid)* - **time-span:** 746 - 525 B.C. - **object_measurement_heigth:** 1.6 - **object_measurement_length:** 36.2 - **object_measurement_width:** 34 - **object_measurement_weigth:** 0.814 - **size_dimension_units_for_distance:** centimeters - **size_dimension_units_for weight:** kilograms - **funerary vessels:** Canopic chest - **object_material:** wood - **location:** Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - **isil:** DE-MUS-015418 - **inventory Number:** ÄM 6/01 - **acquisition_year:** 1823 - **provenance:** https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.68959#0004 ### Digital Object_Canopic chest Lid - **SMB-SPK_digital_object_ID:** - **digitized_by:** Bonn Center for Digital Humanities. Bonn University - **date-time:** 2020-08-31 - **photographic_equipment:** digital camera - **photographic_hardware:** Nikon D750 - **texture_generation:** Nikon D750 - **texture_resolution_width:** 6016 - **texture_resolution_height:** 4016 - **dimension_units_for_resolution:** pixels - **digital_object_processes_techniques:** photogrammetry - **digital_object_type:** photogrammetric 3D-Mesh - **software:** - Agisoft Metashape - Blender - **digital_object_data_measurement_faces:** 0.877 millions - **digital_object_data_measurement_verts:** 0.438 millions - **digital_object_derivate_by:** Bonn Center for Digital Humanities. Bonn University - **digital_object_derivate_software:** - Agisoft Metashape - Substance Designer - Blender - **digital_object_derivate_data_measurement_faces:** 0.045 millions - **digital_object_derivate_data_measurement_verts:** 0.022 millions - **documented_by:** Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz - **data_set_license:** CC BY-SA 4.0 ### Canopic chest Bottom - **titel_de:** *Kanopenkasten für Eingeweide der Tairkap (Kasten)* - **titel_en:** *Canopic Chest for the internal organs of Ta-ir-kap (Bottom)* - **time-span:** 746 - 525 B.C. - **object_measurement_heigth:** 8.2 - **object_measurement_length:** 36 - **object_measurement_width:** 34 - **object_measurement_weigth:** 2.2 - **size_dimension_units_for_distance:** centimeters - **size_dimension_units_for weight:** kilograms - **funerary vessels:** Canopic chest - **object_material:** wood - **location:** Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - **isil:** DE-MUS-015418 - **inventory Number:** ÄM 6/02 - **acquisition_year:** 1823 - **provenance:** https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.68959#0004 ### Digital Object_Canopic chest Bottom - **SMB-SPK_digital_object_ID:** - **digitized_by:** Bonn Center for Digital Humanities. Bonn University - **date-time:** 2020-08-31 - **photographic_equipment:** digital camera - **photographic_hardware:** Nikon D750 - **texture_generation:** Nikon D750 - **texture_resolution_width:** 6016 - **texture_resolution_height:** 4016 - **dimension_units_for_resolution:** pixels - **digital_object_processes_techniques:** photogrammetry - **digital_object_type:** photogrammetric 3D-Mesh - **software:** - Agisoft Metashape - Blender - **digital_object_data_measurement_faces:** 1.238 millions - **digital_object_data_measurement_verts:** 0.619 millions - **digital_object_derivate_by:** Bonn Center for Digital Humanities. Bonn University - **digital_object_derivate_software:** - Agisoft Metashape - Substance Designer - Blender - **digital_object_derivate_data_measurement_faces:** 0.040 millions - **digital_object_derivate_data_measurement_verts:** 0.020 millions - **documented_by:** Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz - **data_set_license:** CC BY-SA 4.0 ## Layer_04: Mummy of the lady Tairkap - **description:** The mummy has not been unwrapped. Besides the thickness of the bandaging, the outer stripes which hold the wrapping together, can be seen. Below the head, the front side of the mummy is covered by a blue bead-net, characteristic element of Egyptian funerary equipment of the 1st millennium BCE. - **described_by:** Bonn Center for Digital Humanities. Bonn University - **date-time:** 2020-08-31 - inventory Number: ÄM 5 ### Mummy of the lady Tairkap - **titel_de:** *Mumie der Tairkap (Mensch)* - **titel_en:** *Mummy of the lady Tairkap (Body)* - **time-span:** 670 - 610 B.C. - **object_measurement_heigth:** 25 - **object_measurement_length:** 160 - **object_measurement_width:** 40 - **object_measurement_weigth:** 100 - **size_dimension_units_for_distance:** centimeters - **size_dimension_units_for weight:** kilograms - **remains** mummies - **location:** Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - **isil:** DE-MUS-015418 - **inventory Number:** ÄM 5/02 - **acquisition_year:** 1823 - **provenance:** https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.68959#0004 ### Digital Object_Mummy of the lady Tairkap - **SMB-SPK_digital_object_ID:** - **digitized_by:** Bonn Center for Digital Humanities. Bonn University - **date-time:** 2020-08-31 - **photographic_equipment:** digital camera - **photographic_hardware:** Nikon D750 - **texture_generation:** Nikon D750 - **texture_resolution_width:** 6016 - **texture_resolution_height:** 4016 - **dimension_units_for_resolution:** pixels - **digital_object_processes_techniques:** photogrammetry - **digital_object_type:** photogrammetric 3D-Mesh - **software:** - Agisoft Metashape - Blender - **digital_object_data_measurement_faces:** 3.640 millions - **digital_object_data_measurement_verts:** 1.821 millions - **digital_object_derivate_by:** Bonn Center for Digital Humanities. Bonn University - **digital_object_derivate_software:** - Agisoft Metashape - Substance Designer - Blender - **digital_object_derivate_data_measurement_faces:** 0.167 millions - **digital_object_derivate_data_measurement_verts:** 0.083 millions - **documented_by:** Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz - **data_set_license:** CC BY-SA 4.0 ## Contents: The dataset is hierarchically organized and consists of seven digital objects (AM 3/01 – AM 6/02). It follows the arrangement of the funerary ensemble—from the outer sarcophagus (AM 3/01) to the dataset containing the mummy (the body - AM 6/02). The graphical representation and the semantic relationships serve as a guide for the digital reconstruction of the entire funerary ensemble. ```mermaid flowchart LR subgraph Layer_01 ["Outer Coffin"] direction TB A1_1["ÄM 3/01"] --- A1_2["ÄM 3/02"] subgraph Layer_02 ["Inner Coffin"] direction TB B1_1["ÄM 4/01"] --- B1_2["ÄM 4/02"] subgraph Layer_03 ["Canopic Chest"] direction TB C1_1["ÄM 6/01"] --- C1_2["ÄM 6/02"] subgraph Layer_04 ["Mummy Body"] D1_1["ÄM 5/02"] end end end end erDiagram OuterCoffin { string inventoryNumber "ÄM 3" string name "Anthropoid Outer Coffin" int numberOfParts 2 } OuterCoffinLid { string inventoryNumber "ÄM 3/01" string name "Outer Coffin Lid" } OuterCoffinBase { string inventoryNumber "ÄM 3/02" string name "Outer Coffin Base" } InnerCoffin { string inventoryNumber "ÄM 4" string name "Anthropoid Inner Coffin" int numberOfParts 2 } InnerCoffinLid { string inventoryNumber "ÄM 4/01" string name "Inner Coffin Lid" } InnerCoffinBase { string inventoryNumber "ÄM 4/02" string name "Inner Coffin Base" } CanopicChest { string inventoryNumber "ÄM 6" string name "Canopic Chest" int numberOfParts 2 } CanopicChestLid { string inventoryNumber "ÄM 6/01" string name "Canopic Chest Lid" } CanopicChestBase { string inventoryNumber "ÄM 6/02" string name "Canopic Chest Base" } MummyWithBeadNet { string inventoryNumber "ÄM 5" string name "Mummy with bead-net" int numberOfParts 2 } BeadNet { string inventoryNumber "ÄM 5/01" string name "Bead-net" } Mummy { string inventoryNumber "ÄM 5/02" string name "Mummy Body" } OuterCoffin ||--|{ OuterCoffinLid : "composed of" OuterCoffin ||--|{ OuterCoffinBase : "composed of" OuterCoffin ||--|| InnerCoffin : "encloses" OuterCoffinLid ||--o| InnerCoffinLid : "aligned with" OuterCoffinBase ||--o| InnerCoffinBase : "aligned with" InnerCoffin ||--|{ InnerCoffinLid : "composed of" InnerCoffin ||--|{ InnerCoffinBase : "composed of" InnerCoffin ||--|| MummyWithBeadNet : "encloses" OuterCoffin }o--|| CanopicChest : "contains" CanopicChest ||--|{ CanopicChestLid : "composed of" CanopicChest ||--|{ CanopicChestBase : "composed of" MummyWithBeadNet ||--|{ BeadNet : "composed of" MummyWithBeadNet ||--|{ Mummy : "composed of"