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AN EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME PAINTED WOOD SARCOPHAGUS PANEL
AN EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME PAINTED WOOD SARCOPHAGUS PANEL
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AN EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME PAINTED WOOD SARCOPHAGUS PANEL

LATE PERIOD - PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 664-30 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME PAINTED WOOD SARCOPHAGUS PANEL
LATE PERIOD - PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 664-30 B.C.
71 in. (180.5 cm.) long
Provenance
Cecil Schwartz (1875-1903), Essex, thence by descent to the present owner.
Tribal Art from Africa, the Americas, Melanesia and Polynesia, The von Dehn Collection of Ancient Glass, Classical, Egyptian, Western Asiatic and British Antiquities, Ancient Jewellery, Christie’s, London, 11 December 1974, lot 247 (unsold).

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Lot Essay

The scene shows the sun god Ra, the principal god of creation, taking his nocturnal form of a ram-headed man, a large solar disc behind, riding in his solar barque with Thoth seated in front and two horus headed figures standing at prow and stern. The pantheon of Egyptian gods pull him through the waters of the Underworld - the nocturnal journal where his crew fight against the god's enemies, chief among them the serpent Apophis, who sought to obstruct his journey. At each sunrise Apophis is defeated and the sun rises in triumph in the East.

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