Black schist sarcophagus of Ankhnesneferibre

British Museum EA 32. 
26th dynasty, about 530 BC. 
From Thebes. Found in the tomb at Deir el-Medina. 
Ankhnesneferibre was the last “God’s Wife of Amun” before the Persian conquest of 525 BC. The lid shows her clasping the royal crook and flail, symbolising her powerful position in Thebes. The sarcophagus was reused in Roman times by Amenhotep-Pimentu, a priest, who added the inscription around the upper edge of the coffer. He also added his own name in the princess’s cartouches and changed the pronouns in the text.