A GESSO-PAINTED WOODEN SARCOPHAGUS FRAGMENT, depicting a scene of a pyramid-topped tomb below the sacred mountain, the adjacent panel with emerging cow and winged uraeus, sem-priest holding out a sceptre and table of offerings to the ba (soul) bird and seated Osiris, Lord of Eternity, above is a band of hieroglyphs mentioning the parents' names Horpuy and Eseihet, with frieze of uraei along the top, the interior (reverse) with three tutelary deities of the city (Thebes), two human-headed and one snake-headed with a beard, painted yellow, red, white, blue and green, with ladder border on each side, Ramesside, Dynasty XX, circa 12th-11th Century B.C.

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A GESSO-PAINTED WOODEN SARCOPHAGUS FRAGMENT, depicting a scene of a pyramid-topped tomb below the sacred mountain, the adjacent panel with emerging cow and winged uraeus, sem-priest holding out a sceptre and table of offerings to the ba (soul) bird and seated Osiris, Lord of Eternity, above is a band of hieroglyphs mentioning the parents' names Horpuy and Eseihet, with frieze of uraei along the top, the interior (reverse) with three tutelary deities of the city (Thebes), two human-headed and one snake-headed with a beard, painted yellow, red, white, blue and green, with ladder border on each side, Ramesside, Dynasty XX, circa 12th-11th Century B.C.
20½ x 9½in. (52 x 24cm.)