Lot Essay
For a similar frontal-faced Ba bird, see no. 62 in Patch, Reflections of Greatness, Ancient Egypt at The Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
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A PAINTED WOOD COFIN FRAGMENT
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 1070-712 B.C.
The interior with a human-headed Ba-bird with outstretched wings and up-raised arms, the face rendered frontally and crowned with a sun disk, with baboons above the wings, their arms raised in adoration, the four surviving corners with the heads of deities, the exterior with varioius amuletic symbols including a djed-pillar in one register and a tyet knot amulet in another, together with a hieroghlyphic inscription in part reading: "Adoring the Lord of the Sky"
17 1/4in. (43.8cm.) long
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 1070-712 B.C.
The interior with a human-headed Ba-bird with outstretched wings and up-raised arms, the face rendered frontally and crowned with a sun disk, with baboons above the wings, their arms raised in adoration, the four surviving corners with the heads of deities, the exterior with varioius amuletic symbols including a djed-pillar in one register and a tyet knot amulet in another, together with a hieroghlyphic inscription in part reading: "Adoring the Lord of the Sky"
17 1/4in. (43.8cm.) long