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 http://d-nb.info/gnd/100791549, together with the comparable one of Pestjenfi (ÄM 50–54), probably a close relative of Tairkap.
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Anthropoid Outer Coffin of a Woman Named Ta-ir-kap (Base)
(ÄM_03_02)
Anthropoid Outer Coffin of a Woman Named Ta-ir-kap (Base)
(ÄM_03_02)
May 13, 2026
Lang, Matthias; Pathé, Philippe, 2026, "Anthropoid Outer Coffin of a Woman Named Ta-ir-kap (Base)
(ÄM_03_02)", https://doi.org/10.60507/FK2/IVAWMG, bonndata, V1
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.
Anthropoid Inner Coffin of a Woman Named Ta-ir-kap (Lid) (ÄM_04_01)
Anthropoid Inner Coffin of a Woman Named Ta-ir-kap (Lid) (ÄM_04_01)
May 13, 2026
Lang, Matthias; Pathé, Philippe, 2026, "Anthropoid Inner Coffin of a Woman Named Ta-ir-kap (Lid) (ÄM_04_01)", https://doi.org/10.60507/FK2/I9MDEV, bonndata, V1
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...
Anthropoid Outer Coffin of a Woman Named Ta-ir-kap (Lid)
(ÄM_03_01)
Anthropoid Outer Coffin of a Woman Named Ta-ir-kap (Lid)
(ÄM_03_01)
May 13, 2026
Lang, Matthias; Pathé, Philippe, 2026, "Anthropoid Outer Coffin of a Woman Named Ta-ir-kap (Lid)
(ÄM_03_01)", https://doi.org/10.60507/FK2/5Q848X, bonndata, V1
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.
Anthropoid Inner Coffin of a Woman Named Ta-ir-kap (Base) (ÄM_04_02)
Anthropoid Inner Coffin of a Woman Named Ta-ir-kap (Base) (ÄM_04_02)
May 13, 2026
Lang, Matthias; Pathé, Philippe, 2026, "Anthropoid Inner Coffin of a Woman Named Ta-ir-kap (Base) (ÄM_04_02)", https://doi.org/10.60507/FK2/LIQ3SG, bonndata, V1
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...
Mummy of Ta-ir-kap (ÄM_05)
Mummy of Ta-ir-kap (ÄM_05)
May 13, 2026
Lang, Matthias; Pathé, Philippe, 2026, "Mummy of Ta-ir-kap (ÄM_05)", https://doi.org/10.60507/FK2/VCZ94J, bonndata, V1
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.
Canopic Chest for the internal organs of Ta-ir-kap (Lid) (ÄM_06_01)
Canopic Chest for the internal organs of Ta-ir-kap (Lid) (ÄM_06_01)
May 13, 2026
Lang, Matthias; Pathé, Philippe, 2026, "Canopic Chest for the internal organs of Ta-ir-kap (Lid) (ÄM_06_01)", https://doi.org/10.60507/FK2/UUFXKG, bonndata, V1
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...
Canopic Chest for the internal organs of Ta-ir-kap (Base) (ÄM_06_02)
Canopic Chest for the internal organs of Ta-ir-kap (Base) (ÄM_06_02)
May 13, 2026
Lang, Matthias; Pathé, Philippe, 2026, "Canopic Chest for the internal organs of Ta-ir-kap (Base) (ÄM_06_02)", https://doi.org/10.60507/FK2/AISTZB, bonndata, V1
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...
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