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The funerary literature from ancient Egypt has long been studied.

This paper takes up some of the open questions and seeks to address them from a number of different perspectives, complementing traditional philological and iconographical approaches with ontological and material culture perspectives drawn from archaeology and anthropology. as medium for image and writing, as space, as house, as inherently connected to – or even notionally part of – the dead body), some of which are still deserving of further exploration. Similarly an object such as a coffin is open to a number of different understandings (e.g. Nonetheless, certain significant questions are still left open, so that for instance the exact relationship between coffin and ritual is understood rather differently by the two authors of the coffin cases studies cited. This surge of interest has gone a long way towards elucidating the religious, and especially ritual, context of the coffins. Over the last decades this material has been the subject of a number of detailed studies, including two typological studies (Willems 1988 Lapp 1993) and a number of monographic case studies of individual coffins (Willems 1996 Meyer-Dietrich 2001, 2006). Middle Kingdom coffins with their extensive programmes of decoration and inscription constitute a rich source for studying Egyptian mortuary conceptions.