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THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 21ST DYNASTY, CIRCA 1070-945 B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD SARCOPHAGUS FRAGMENT
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 21ST DYNASTY, CIRCA 1070-945 B.C.
Depicting Hathor in the form of a speckled cow with saddle cloth, crowned with a sun disc and two ostrich feathers, a red fillet around her neck, Wadjet hovering above as a winged cobra with sun disc, the bovine emerging from the Theban mountain, with the tomb of the deceased topped with a pyramidion, with accompanying hieroglyphic text describing the blessed deceased before various deities, a frieze of alternating uraei and maat-feathers above, the back with remains of painted decoration with standing mummified figure
13 5/8 x 9 ½ in. (34.5 x 24 cm.)
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 21ST DYNASTY, CIRCA 1070-945 B.C.
Depicting Hathor in the form of a speckled cow with saddle cloth, crowned with a sun disc and two ostrich feathers, a red fillet around her neck, Wadjet hovering above as a winged cobra with sun disc, the bovine emerging from the Theban mountain, with the tomb of the deceased topped with a pyramidion, with accompanying hieroglyphic text describing the blessed deceased before various deities, a frieze of alternating uraei and maat-feathers above, the back with remains of painted decoration with standing mummified figure
13 5/8 x 9 ½ in. (34.5 x 24 cm.)
Provenance
with Staatlicher Kunsthandel Gallery, East Berlin, from whom acquired by Prof. Kurt Schroeder (1909-1978), Berlin, on 25 February 1961.
Glass collection, Dresden.
Anonymous sale; Signens Kunstauktionen, Koln, Germany, 25 April 2014, lot 365.
Glass collection, Dresden.
Anonymous sale; Signens Kunstauktionen, Koln, Germany, 25 April 2014, lot 365.
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