Details
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE LINTEL FRAGMENT
LATE PTOLEMAIC TO ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
With an incised winged disk flanked by two uraei in the raking cornice, four panels below sculpted in raised relief, to the left a standing man (possibly a king), offering burning incense before a deity (possibly Osiris) enthroned, facing left, wearing the Double Crown and holding a was-scepter, a vessel atop an offering stand and a lily in between, a goddess or a queen standing behind holding a scepter; the following three panels similarly composed, the next with a standing priest offering ointment before Shu enthroned, facing left, wearing a large ostrich-plumed crown, Tefnut standing behind; the third panel with a standing priest offering a statue of the goddess Ma'at before Anukis enthroned, facing right, wearing a Nubian curled wig and a tall feathered headdress, a female standing behind; the fourth panel with a king wearing a nemes-headcloth offering nu-pots before Horus or Khonsu enthroned, facing right, wearing a solar disk fronted by a uraeus, Isis or Hathor standing behind
32 5/8 (82.9 cm.) long
Provenance
The Estate of Michel Abemayor, New York; Sotheby's, New York, 11 December 1976, lot 307.
with Joel L. Malter, Encino, California, 1979 (Auction III, no. 344b).
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