EGYPTIAN GESSO-PAINTED POLYCHROME WOOD FIGURE OF PTAH-SOKAR-OSIRIS

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EGYPTIAN GESSO-PAINTED POLYCHROME WOOD FIGURE OF PTAH-SOKAR-OSIRIS
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 332-31 B.C.
The mummiform figure is decorated with a broad collar, winged scarab and two columns of heiroglyphs, is hollow, with a rectangular cover in the back, and would have contained papyrus inscribed with parts of the Book of the Dead or a small so-called "corn mummy", with an additional long rectangular base and crown of ostrich feathers, ram's horns and the solar disc--31 1/2 in. (78.8 cm) high

Lot Essay

Ptah-Sokar-Osiris was the synchretistic god of resurrection.

Cf. no. 144 in D'auria, Lacovara and Roehrig, Mummies and Magic, The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (exhibition catalogue), Boston, 1988