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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF PATRICIA STICKNEY
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD PTAH-SOKER-OSIRIS
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 304-30 B.C.
Details
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD PTAH-SOKER-OSIRIS
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 304-30 B.C.
Depicted mummiform, wearing a black tripartite wig and separately-made plumed crown with a solar disk, the green face with black painted eyes, pupils, cosmetic lines and brows, the body painted red, with three horizontal bands outlined in black across the chest, a vertical column of hieroglyphs down the center of the body, reading: "Recitation by Osiris-Sepa: A Royal [Offering] Formula (to) [the Foremost of the West?], the Great God, Lord of Abydos, in . . . . (?);" inserted into a separately-made high rectangular plinth, with a cavity in front for a now-missing element
22 3/8 in. (56.8 cm.) high
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 304-30 B.C.
Depicted mummiform, wearing a black tripartite wig and separately-made plumed crown with a solar disk, the green face with black painted eyes, pupils, cosmetic lines and brows, the body painted red, with three horizontal bands outlined in black across the chest, a vertical column of hieroglyphs down the center of the body, reading: "Recitation by Osiris-Sepa: A Royal [Offering] Formula (to) [the Foremost of the West?], the Great God, Lord of Abydos, in . . . . (?);" inserted into a separately-made high rectangular plinth, with a cavity in front for a now-missing element
22 3/8 in. (56.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired by Dr. Alfred Vogl and Patricia Stickney, New York, early 1950s-1973.
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