The paper shows several results of my Master’s dissertation I sarcofagi a vernice nera della XVIII – XIX dinastia: uno studio tipologico e cronologico, written under the supervision of Professor Marilina Betrò and defended at the University of Pisa. The black coffins with yellow decoration appear in the reign of Hatshepsut/ Tuthmosis III, replacing the previous white coffins, and disappear apparently around the reign of Ramses II, when the ‘yellow coffins’ replace them. Although this type of coffins have been studied by some scholars, especially John Taylor, Aidan Dodson and Andrej Niwinski, in-depth chronological and typological studies have never been carried out. Furthermore, only a small number of specimens have been thoroughly published. I have catalogued about seventy coffins of this type, mostly thanks to the access to a large amount of unpublished material afforded to me by many museums. Construction techniques, decoration techniques, but mostly iconographic themes have been considered in my research. Texts and funerary inscriptions found on the coffins have been collected into types. This investigation has led to new results, which have both confirmed and refuted several different hypotheses suggested so far about black coffins with yellow decoration. In this paper I present the details of my iconographic study and its results, relating my investigations to other studies in this research area.

Black coffins with yellow decoration of the New Kingdom. An original iconographic study

Lisa sartini
2018-01-01

Abstract

The paper shows several results of my Master’s dissertation I sarcofagi a vernice nera della XVIII – XIX dinastia: uno studio tipologico e cronologico, written under the supervision of Professor Marilina Betrò and defended at the University of Pisa. The black coffins with yellow decoration appear in the reign of Hatshepsut/ Tuthmosis III, replacing the previous white coffins, and disappear apparently around the reign of Ramses II, when the ‘yellow coffins’ replace them. Although this type of coffins have been studied by some scholars, especially John Taylor, Aidan Dodson and Andrej Niwinski, in-depth chronological and typological studies have never been carried out. Furthermore, only a small number of specimens have been thoroughly published. I have catalogued about seventy coffins of this type, mostly thanks to the access to a large amount of unpublished material afforded to me by many museums. Construction techniques, decoration techniques, but mostly iconographic themes have been considered in my research. Texts and funerary inscriptions found on the coffins have been collected into types. This investigation has led to new results, which have both confirmed and refuted several different hypotheses suggested so far about black coffins with yellow decoration. In this paper I present the details of my iconographic study and its results, relating my investigations to other studies in this research area.
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