A LIMESTONE BUST FROM AN ANTHROPOID SARCOPHAGUS
A LIMESTONE BUST FROM AN ANTHROPOID SARCOPHAGUS

LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX, 664-343 B.C.

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A LIMESTONE BUST FROM AN ANTHROPOID SARCOPHAGUS
late period, dynasty xxvi-xxx, 664-343 b.c.
Depicted wearing a tripartite headdress and a false beard, the eyes, brows, and cosmetic lines painted black, the corners of the mouth drilled, inscribed with a single column of incised hieroglyphs reading: "A gift which the king gives to Osiris, the foremost of the Westerners, the great god, the lord of Abydos, in order that he may give..."
37 in. (94 cm.) high