AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD COFFIN FOR HENES-HEPET-EN-AMUN
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD COFFIN FOR HENES-HEPET-EN-AMUN
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD COFFIN FOR HENES-HEPET-EN-AMUN
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD COFFIN FOR HENES-HEPET-EN-AMUN
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PROPERTY FROM A GERMAN COLLECTION
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD COFFIN FOR HENES-HEPET-EN-AMUN

THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD TO EARLY LATE PERIOD, 25TH-26TH DYNASTY, 747-525 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD COFFIN FOR HENES-HEPET-EN-AMUN
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD TO EARLY LATE PERIOD, 25TH-26TH DYNASTY, 747-525 B.C.
64 in. (162.5 cm.) long
Provenance
Private Collection, Milan, acquired by 1979.
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 10 June 1994, lot 53.
Private Collection, U.S., acquired from the above.
Property of a North American Private Collector; Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 5 June 2014, lot 11.
Private Collection, Germany, acquired from the above; thence by descent to the current owner.

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Lot Essay

Gessoed and brightly painted, this coffin is comprised of an anthropoid lid and trough on a rectangular integral plinth. The deceased is depicted wearing a striped tripartite headcloth centered by a scarab and is adorned with an elaborate, multi-strand beaded broad collar with falcon-head terminals and a winged scarab at his chest. The body shows the Four Sons of Horus facing inward, flanking a column of hieroglyphs reading, "A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris Foremost of the West, Great God, Lord of Abydos, that he may give Invocation-Offerings of beer, oxen and fowl, offerings."

The right column of hieroglyphs on the reverse reads: "Recitation by Osiris, Foremost of the West, Great God, Lord of Abydos, that he may give Invocation-Offerings of beer, oxen and fowl, offerings and food, incense and oil, clothing (and alabaster?), and every good, pure thing, for the Ka of the Osiris Henes-hepet-en-Amun, son of Nayu-tja-en(?)." The left column reads: "A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris, Foremost of, Lord of Abydos, that he may give Invocation-Offerings of beer, oxen and fowl, offerings and food, incense and oil, clothing (and alabaster?), and every good, pure thing the Ka of the Osiris Henes-hepet-en-Amun, son of Nau-tjau(?)."

A band of text running along the base, the front with mirror-image text reads on the right side: "that he may give Invocation-Offerings of beer, oxen and fowl, offerings;" the left side reads: "Invocation-Offerings of oxen and fowl, offerings and food;" and the back reads: "A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris, Foremost of the West, Great God, Lord."

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