What is the benefit of the coffin for the dead?
What does the artist mean from the texts inside and outside the coffin for the dead?
Please look deeply because the ancient Egyptian thought that he would be resurrected in the eternal world. That is why the ancient Egyptian artist used to create inscriptions on the coffin and record the works of the dead in his life until his death.
The coffin is used to utter the dead deeds and symbolize the four sides of the universe..also, the cover considers the sky and the interior of the coffin as the earth. And the texts of the coffins express a new journey for the dead in the other world …
Also, there is a door engraved in one of the corners of the coffin for the dead person to try to get out of it again into the eternal world … the world of the heavens.
The ark is one of the bridges crossing into the other world of the dead.
Art in ancient Egypt was not without religious thought
Art is not just an expression of beauty but an expression of religious thought in ancient Egypt.