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AN EGYPTIAN CARTONNAGE ANTHROPOID SARCOPHAGUS
Third Intermediate Period, 1070-712 B.C.
Inscribed for the Lady Ta-dj-netcher, called Tyat, the daughter of Na-djadja and the Lady Shepena, the profusion of hieroglyphs assuring her a superabundance of funerary offerings in the Hereafter, her modelled face with inlaid eyes consisting of bronze eyebrows and eyelids with white stone sclera and black stone cornea, the ears with painted black details, wearing a striped headdress gilded at the ends and a broad collar with gilded falcon-head terminals, across her abdomen the sky-goddess Mut facing right surmounted by gilded solar disk, her arms outstretched supporting her wings below, her tallons and hands supporting ostrich plumes, flanked by Nephthys and Isis, each accompanied by falcons, the legs decorated with four rows of five panels each containing a member of the Egyptian pantheon, an Anubis jackal crouching on a shrine over each foot, both sides adorned with an undulating cobra representing Upper and Lower Egypt respectively and four columns of hieroglyphs from the shoulder to the foot, the back pillar with a long column of painted green hieroglyphs flanked by alternating blue, green and red rectangles and black and white lines, 73 3/8in. (186.4cm.) high