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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF BRANTLEY EUBANKS
AN EGYPTIAN GILT AND PAINTED WOOD PTAH-SOKAR-OSIRIS
LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN GILT AND PAINTED WOOD PTAH-SOKAR-OSIRIS
LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.
Depicted mummiform, with a blue tripartite wig, the face gilt, with the eye outlines, pupils, cosmetic lines and conforming brows in black, wearing a blue false beard and a broad collar composed of strands of green, blue and red beads, with falcon-head terminals at the shoulders, the body red, a kneeling sky goddess at the center with her wings outstretched, surmounted by a solar disk, two columns of hieroglyphs below with a funerary offering to Osiris on behalf of the deceased Wesir-nakht, reading: "Hail to you, Heir who comes forth from the great inner coffin, who comes forth from Atum, may you make (or be, serve as) the protection of the Osiris Imy(t)-pet, daughter of the Sa-mer-ef (A-Son-Who-Loves) priest Wesir-nakht (or Osiris-nakht), born of ...y ..., Justified. May you [give], Osiris Foremost [of the West], . . . oxen and fowl, every good and pure [thing] on which a god lives, and for every
LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.
Depicted mummiform, with a blue tripartite wig, the face gilt, with the eye outlines, pupils, cosmetic lines and conforming brows in black, wearing a blue false beard and a broad collar composed of strands of green, blue and red beads, with falcon-head terminals at the shoulders, the body red, a kneeling sky goddess at the center with her wings outstretched, surmounted by a solar disk, two columns of hieroglyphs below with a funerary offering to Osiris on behalf of the deceased Wesir-nakht, reading: "Hail to you, Heir who comes forth from the great inner coffin, who comes forth from Atum, may you make (or be, serve as) the protection of the Osiris Imy(t)-pet, daughter of the Sa-mer-ef (A-Son-Who-Loves) priest Wesir-nakht (or Osiris-nakht), born of ...y ..., Justified. May you [give], Osiris Foremost [of the West], . . . oxen and fowl, every good and pure [thing] on which a god lives, and for every
Provenance
Private Collection, acquired prior to 1980.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 12 June 2002, lot 274.
A Nevada Private Collection; Christie's, New York, 6 December 2007, lot 26.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 12 June 2002, lot 274.
A Nevada Private Collection; Christie's, New York, 6 December 2007, lot 26.
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