AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED FUNERARY PAPYRUS FRAGMENT FOR THE OVERSEER OF THE SERVANTS OF THE FIRST PROPHET OF AMEN-RE, AMENMOSE

THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 21ST DYNASTY, CIRCA 1070-712 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED FUNERARY PAPYRUS FRAGMENT FOR THE OVERSEER OF THE SERVANTS OF THE FIRST PROPHET OF AMEN-RE, AMENMOSE
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 21ST DYNASTY, CIRCA 1070-712 B.C.
Divided in two parts, on the right a winged sun disc surmounting the deceased, wearing a white tunic with red stripes on sleeve, a bag wig held with a white fillet tied at the rear and topped with a perfume cone, offering incense to the falcon-headed god Re-Harakhty-Atum, wearing a red sun disc encircled by a uraeus, a blue wig and a broad beaded collar, holding a crook and a flail, four columns of hieroglyphs above the deceased, reading: 'Adoring Re, the foremost (?), possessor of goodness, the Osiris Overseer of the Servants of the First Prophet of Amen-Re King of the Gods, Amenmose [...]', and four columns of text above the deity, reading: ‘A royal offering to Re-Harakhty-Atum, lord of the two lands, the Southern Heliopolitan (=Armant), may he give the sacred sefet-oil, beer, oxen, fowl, incense, linen garment, and all things good and pure, (for) the Osiris, Overseer of the Judges, Amenmose, justified’; on the left, a scene from the 12th Hour of the Book of Amduat, with a procession of eight figures facing right adoring the Sun god, outline in black with some added red, some with fire-spitting snakes coming out of their mouth, with hieroglyphic text above and below

21 ½ x 5 1/8 in. (54.6 x 13.1 cm.)

來源

Gustave Jéquier (1868-1946) collection; and thence by descent.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 4 June 2008, lot 11.
Private collection, UK, acquired at the above sale.

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Georgiana Aitken

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The Book of Amduat, literally ‘That which is in the Underworld’, is a funerary text composed for royalty which first decorated tomb walls in the Valley of the Kings. The first complete version was found in KV34, the tomb of Thutmosis III. The 21st Dynasty is the only period in which the Amduat is found in non-royal papyri. The Book describes, hour by hour, the nocturnal journey that the Sun God, Amen-Re, makes by boat through the Underworld. It is filled with deities which appear in no other treatise, for example, fire-spitting snakes who act as protectors of the Sun god.
The present lot includes an offering scene to the god Re-Harakhty, at the twelfth and last hour of the night, when the Sun God prepares to emerge once again into the eastern horizon at the start of a new dawn. It was believed that the deceased undertook the same journey, ultimately to become one with Re and live forever.

THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 21ST DYNASTY, CIRCA 1070-712 B.C.

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