Lot 136
136
AN EGYPTIAN CORN MUMMY AND PAINTED WOOD COFFIN
AN EGYPTIAN CORN MUMMY AND PAINTED WOOD COFFIN
AN EGYPTIAN CORN MUMMY AND PAINTED WOOD COFFIN
AN EGYPTIAN CORN MUMMY AND PAINTED WOOD COFFIN
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PROPERTY FROM A GERMAN COLLECTION
AN EGYPTIAN CORN MUMMY AND PAINTED WOOD COFFIN

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD TO ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.

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AN EGYPTIAN CORN MUMMY AND PAINTED WOOD COFFIN
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD TO ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
19 in. (48.2 cm.) long
Provenance
Private Collection, AL.
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 13 December 1980, lot 206.
Private Collection, CA, acquired from the above.
Property from a California Private Collection; Antiquities, Christie’s, New York, 9 December 2010, lot 34.
Property from a California Private Collection; Antiquities, Christie’s, New York, 7 December 2011, lot 52.
Literature
M. Granberry, "Tests Show Mummy Was No Infant," The Los Angeles Times, 21 December 1991, p. B5.
Exhibited
San Diego Museum of Man, mid 1980s-2010.

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Lot Essay

With an inscription beginning on the underside of the base in one column of hieroglyphs and continuing in five columns along the ankles and feet of the lid, reading: "Hail to you! (your) two arms being open, who comes forth from this god being old, who returns and who comes forth in order to return in jubilation, Osiris, Foremost of the West, Great God, Lord of Abydos! May Bakennut (?) live...unto (eternity?). (My?) name is united with the earth (?)...in order to praise (?) and favor...on you (?) in eternity."

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