A wooden Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figure, wearing plumed headdress, gesso covered with details applied in mainly red and green pigment, with tang below for attachment, restoration to nose and slight repainting, mounted -- 17¾in. (45.1cm.) high, Ptolemaic period, 3rd-1st Century B.C.; and a figure of a painted wooden kneeling boatman, with hands clasped to his knees, wearing a short baggy wig and white kilt, the body with red pigment, remains of dowel pin for attachment beneath -- 4¾in. (12cm.) high, Middle Kingdom, Dynasty XI-XII (2040-1783 B.C.) (2)

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A wooden Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figure, wearing plumed headdress, gesso covered with details applied in mainly red and green pigment, with tang below for attachment, restoration to nose and slight repainting, mounted -- 17¾in. (45.1cm.) high, Ptolemaic period, 3rd-1st Century B.C.; and a figure of a painted wooden kneeling boatman, with hands clasped to his knees, wearing a short baggy wig and white kilt, the body with red pigment, remains of dowel pin for attachment beneath -- 4¾in. (12cm.) high, Middle Kingdom, Dynasty XI-XII (2040-1783 B.C.) (2)

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