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Ancient Egyptian coffin, made of bronze and gilded wood for an ibis, found at Hermopolis, Egypt, Ptolemaic Period (323-30 BCE). Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

This white marble anthropoid (human-shaped) coffin shows a male head wearing a Egyptian style headdress. Phoenician art was influenced by many different traditions. Coffins of this Gaeco-Egyptian style have been found in large numbers at...

A Chinese lacquered coffin with dragon and bird decoration from the Chu state. 4th century BCE. (Hubei Provincial Museum, Wuhan, China)

A face of a woman fragment from an Egyptian coffin. New Kingdom of Egypt, 18th-20th Dynasty, 1550-1070 BCE. Egyptian Museum, Turin.

Anthropoid pottery lid of a slipper coffin. It was hand-made by coil technique. The facial features were mould-made. There are faint traces of red paint. Philistine. Late Bronze Age. From Tomb 0570 at Lachish, modern-day Israel. (The British...

Bronze coffin decoration depicting the god Atum as a coiled serpent. Late Period of ancient Egypt, 664-30 BCE. Art Institute of Chicago.

Inner coffin of Nestawedjat, 25th Dynasty, about 700-680 BCE, EA 22812a.

Lid from a Philistine terracotta coffin. Applied facial-detail and arms. 20th Dynasty, 1400-1150 BCE. From Tell Nabasha, Nile Delta, modern-day Egypt. (The British Museum, London)

This is a painted plaster head from an Egyptian coffin-cover. The eyes were inlaid with glass. Behind the back of the head, there is a painted motif of a winged scarab and sun-disk. This portrait mask is for funerary use. From Egypt. 1st...

An earthenware coffin. Kawanabe, Tsuyama-shi, Okayama, Japan. Asuka Period, 7th century CE. (Tokyo National Museum)