Iyhat and Tairy

The Museum has two inner coffins, one of which you can see in the Ancient Egypt Gallery. The coffins are beautifully decorated and date from around 700BC. One belonged to a priest called Iyhat, the other once housed the Lady Tairy.

To find out more about the coffins and how they came to Plymouth you can read an article written by Dr Aidan Dodson which was published by the Egypt Exploration Society in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology.

You can also download a translation of the inscriptions on the coffin of Iyhat, kindly provided by Councillor David Salter.

Documents

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	The coffins of Iyhat and Tairy - article written by Aidan Dodson and published by the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. It contains a history of the coffins and information on the identification on them, with images. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf)- 2.5MB
	Appendix 1 - the coffins of Iyhat - appendix to the article which provides information and images of the inscriptions on the coffins of Iyhat. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 2.1MB
	Appendix 2 - the coffins of Tairy - appendix to the article which provides information and images of the inscriptions on the coffins of Tairy. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 5.3MB * This is a large file and could take a long time to download.
	Inscriptions on the coffin of Iyhat - a translation of the inscriptions on the coffin of Iyhat, by Councillor David Salter. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 27.8KB