Lot Essay
For a similar Ba-bird see no. 62 in Patch, Reflections of Greatness, Ancient Egypt at The Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ALAN DERSHOWITZ AND CAROLYN COHEN
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD COFFIN FRAGMENT
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXI, 1069-945 B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD COFFIN FRAGMENT
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXI, 1069-945 B.C.
From the upper section of a wooden sarcophagus, the interior with a human-headed Ba-bird with outstretched wings and upraised arms, the face rendered frontally and crowned with a solar-disk, an inscription to the right of the tail, reading: "Great God of the season(?) of grain," an inscription to the left of the tail, reading: "Great(?) Father of the God, Lord of Grain," with two facing baboons above the wings, their arms raised in adoration, the corners each with a crouching deity, a hieroglyphic inscription on both sides of the upraised arms of the Ba-Bird, reading: "Praise/Worship of the Lord of Shetep-ta(?) (or Shetpet?)," framed by a blue band at the top; the exterior with a column facing right in monochrome ink before a partially-preserved seated Osiris, reading: "Recitation by Osiris, Chief of the Deep, who comes forth/ascends [from?]," with a brightly-painted section toward the right edge, reading: "Lord of the Two Lands," lower and further to the left, reading: "Praise/Worship of [Tyet?]," a Tyet-knot with a disk and arms over a horizontal band above a solar-disk and a djed-pillar flanked by goddesses who are labeled "Isis" and "Nephthys," and two partially-effaced vertical columns of hieroglyphs facing right, reading: "Re-ir(?)-[Maat](?), Justified. Isis the Great, Mo[ther of the God]" and "[Re-i]r-[Maat](?), Justified in..."
17½ in. (43.2 cm.) high
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXI, 1069-945 B.C.
From the upper section of a wooden sarcophagus, the interior with a human-headed Ba-bird with outstretched wings and upraised arms, the face rendered frontally and crowned with a solar-disk, an inscription to the right of the tail, reading: "Great God of the season(?) of grain," an inscription to the left of the tail, reading: "Great(?) Father of the God, Lord of Grain," with two facing baboons above the wings, their arms raised in adoration, the corners each with a crouching deity, a hieroglyphic inscription on both sides of the upraised arms of the Ba-Bird, reading: "Praise/Worship of the Lord of Shetep-ta(?) (or Shetpet?)," framed by a blue band at the top; the exterior with a column facing right in monochrome ink before a partially-preserved seated Osiris, reading: "Recitation by Osiris, Chief of the Deep, who comes forth/ascends [from?]," with a brightly-painted section toward the right edge, reading: "Lord of the Two Lands," lower and further to the left, reading: "Praise/Worship of [Tyet?]," a Tyet-knot with a disk and arms over a horizontal band above a solar-disk and a djed-pillar flanked by goddesses who are labeled "Isis" and "Nephthys," and two partially-effaced vertical columns of hieroglyphs facing right, reading: "Re-ir(?)-[Maat](?), Justified. Isis the Great, Mo[ther of the God]" and "[Re-i]r-[Maat](?), Justified in..."
17½ in. (43.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Art Market, Europe, circa 1980.
Art Market, U.S.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 18 December 1996, lot 83.
Art Market, U.S.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 18 December 1996, lot 83.
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