AN EGYPTIAN WOOD UPPER PART OF A SARCOPHAGUS

LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI, CIRCA 664-525 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN WOOD UPPER PART OF A SARCOPHAGUS
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI, CIRCA 664-525 B.C.
Gessoed and painted, with tripartite wig under vulture wings, face with eyelines and brows inlaid in bronze, eyes with alabaster and glass inlays, fleshy lips drawn into an enigmatic smile, wearing broad floral diadem and wesekh-collar with falcon-headed terminals, beneath, the figure of the sky goddess Nut with outstretched winged arms, name in hieroglyphs within sun-disc headdress, wearing tight-fitting red tunic, crouching on a temple facade with chequerboard decoration, on each side a ram with undulating horns, wearing double plumed and sun-disc headdress, red, black and yellow bands around edge of coffin, thirteen columns and a band of hieroglyphs below
28½ in. (72.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Private collection, Germany, late 1960s-early 1970s.
with Roswitha Eberwein, Gottingen, 23 February 1988.

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Lot Essay

For a sarcophagus with very similar decoration in the Rätisch Museum in Chur, Switzerland, cf. A. Küffer and R. Siegmann, Unter dem Schutz der Himmelsgöttin, Ägyptische Särge, Mumien und Masken in der Schweiz, Zurich, 2007, pp. 122-128, with a discussion about the inner coffin for Ta-ir-dis found in Thebes, probably coming from the same workshop as the example above.

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