This is the outer coffin of a 22nd dynasty priest of Amun named Nespaperennub. Nespaperennub worked as a priest at the temple of Karnak in Thebes. Originally, the middle coffin (SFSU 106.1,2), cartonnage (SFSU 107.1) and Nespaperennub himself would have fit inside this coffin in the fashion of a russian doll. Nespaperennub and his coffins were purchased by Adolf Sutro in Egypt in the early 1880s and were displayed at the Sutro Baths for over half a century. Happily, they were transferred to San Francisco State University before the Baths burnt to the ground in 1966.
For more on Nespaperennub, see our webpage, here: https://3dcoffins.berkeley.edu/coffins/sfsu-global-museum-10512
The model and the images used to build it are courtesy of The San Francisco State University Museum Studies Program and the Global Museum, where Nespaperennub and his coffins remain today.
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