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Painted wooden coffin of a dog

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Title/s	Painted wooden coffin of a dog
Category	funerary equipment
Name	coffin
Description	coffin of a dog. During the Middle Kingdom there is an increase in the appearance of dogs on tomb reliefs. Dogs were hunters, watchdogs or pets. This type of burial is different from the mummified burials of later periods. This dog was given his own tomb and is named in the coffin text five times. His names was 'Heb'.
Field Collection	Beni Hasan Egypt
Dimensions	height 21 cm length 70 cm width 27 cm
Period	Eleventh Dynasty Twelfth Dynasty Middle Kingdom
Date	2119 B.C. — 1794 B.C.
Documentation	Tooley, A. (1988) Coffin of a dog from Beni Hasan (1988) Source title: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (1988)
Material/s	wood
Accession Number	E.47.1902 (Antiquities) (Reference Number: 50433; Input Date: 2003-03-25 / Last Edit: 2011-07-12)

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Painted wooden coffin of a dog