PTOLEMAIC PERIOD (CIRCA 343-30 B.C.)
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A GESSO-PAINTED WOODEN ANTHROPOID SARCOPHAGUS LID
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD (CIRCA 343-30 B.C.)
In red, green and ochre with black details, wearing vulture headdress, a wedjat-eye and scarab on the breast, with broad decorative collar bearing falcon-headed terminals, painted friezes below showing the goddess Maat with outspread protective wings, a boat with the ram-headed sun god, Osiris and the falcon-headed sun god adored by baboons, another frieze with Anubis embalming the deceased on a bier flanked by mourning Isis and Nephthys with food offerings, below a ba-bird flanked by the Four Sons of Horus, two recumbent jackals above the feet of the deceased with two columns of inscription between the feet, mounted
3 ft. 3 in. (1.92 m.) high
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD (CIRCA 343-30 B.C.)
In red, green and ochre with black details, wearing vulture headdress, a wedjat-eye and scarab on the breast, with broad decorative collar bearing falcon-headed terminals, painted friezes below showing the goddess Maat with outspread protective wings, a boat with the ram-headed sun god, Osiris and the falcon-headed sun god adored by baboons, another frieze with Anubis embalming the deceased on a bier flanked by mourning Isis and Nephthys with food offerings, below a ba-bird flanked by the Four Sons of Horus, two recumbent jackals above the feet of the deceased with two columns of inscription between the feet, mounted
3 ft. 3 in. (1.92 m.) high
Sale room notice
The measurement should read 6 ft 3 in high.