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Monument : Ta-ouseret-em-per-nesou (aka Unnefer).
Period : Dynasty XXI
Reign(s) : ?
High Date : 1069
Low Date : 945
Monument type : Coffin
Localisation or provenance : Bab el-Gasus
References : PM I, 2, 636; Speleers (1923, 69-71, N°284); Niwinski (1988, N°50); Delvaux (2015, 86-91); Photos Nunn.
The coffin of the lady Unnefer (MRAH E.5883) is one of those found in the second cache 31 at Bab el-Gasus in 1891 by Grébaut and Daressy. Many of these coffins of the priests and priestesses of Amon were divided into lots and donated to the major museums of the time by the Service des Antiquités. This coffin was part of lot XV. The style is typical of Dynasty XX and XX1 “yellow background” coffins. The strong golden colour used as a base, plus the age-darkened varnish used to finish the decoration give these coffins a unique appearance. The signs also sometimes change colour as a consequence. Since the photos used here were taken, the coffin has undergone restoration. However, the basic colours are quite legible in the photos. This coffin is unusual in having the colour purple on the interior pictorial decoration. This shade is never used for hieroglyphs, but its presence here shows how deviation from the canonical basic colours was rarely applied to polychrome inscriptions.