The Coffin of Djedmonthuiufankh in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden I: Technical and Iconographic/Iconological Aspects

This book is an in-depth study of a XXIst-early XXIInd Dynasty

anthropoid coffin. It is modelled on a combination of D.L. Clarke’s

analytical and E. Panofsky’s iconographic/iconological approaches to

archaeological and art historical data respectively. The introductory

chapter is followed by an Analytical Description which consists of two

parts. In Technical Aspects the data are handled typologically and

statistically, and the coffin’s place among its corpus is established.

In Iconographic Description and Analysis all decorative motifs and

individual (often unique) vignettes are studied in detail. The

Preliminary Iconological Synthesis in which the coffin and its corpus

are placed in the broad cultural-historical framework at Thebes,

concludes this volume. The book contains tables, diagrams, and over 500

illustrations.