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AN EGYPTIAN GESSO-PAINTED WOODEN ANTHROPOID SARCOPHAGUS AND MUMMY OF A PRIEST OF AMUN
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AN EGYPTIAN GESSO-PAINTED WOODEN ANTHROPOID SARCOPHAGUS AND MUMMY OF A PRIEST OF AMUN

THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXI-XXII, CIRCA 960-900 B.C., FROM THEBES

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AN EGYPTIAN GESSO-PAINTED WOODEN ANTHROPOID SARCOPHAGUS AND MUMMY OF A PRIEST OF AMUN
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXI-XXII, CIRCA 960-900 B.C., FROM THEBES
Wearing tripartite wig, beard and broad floral collar, with modelled hands each carrying a mekes-symbol, below a winged sun-disc and a kneeling figure of a winged goddess, probably the sky goddess Nut, flanked by further protective symbols and deities with accompanying hieroglyphs, the painted decoration symbolising solar rebirth or Osirian afterlife, the insides of the coffin painted red, the floor with profile of the goddess of the West, two columns of hieroglyphs on the foot; and an accompanying glazed wooden display case
76¼ in. (194 cm.) long excl. display case

Formerly in a late 19th Century German aristocratic collection: sold Sotheby's, Aus Deutschen Schlössern: Ancestral Attics, Schlöss Monrepos, Stuttgart, 9-14 October 2000, lot 2107.

Specialist note

A detailed report by Carol Andrews and a report on the examination of the mummy by Joyce M. Filer accompanies the above lot.

The sarcophagus is similar to other examples found in 1891 in Deir el-Bahri, Cache II. These sarcophagi are now mainly in European and American museums, with eighteen of them in unknown locations.