THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A HIERATIC HEART SPELL PAPYRUS FRAGMENT, extracts from Spells 26-30, written in black ink, a vignette above the text showing the deceased, wearing a long wrapped over skirt, tied above the waist, holding a piece of cloth in his left hand and approaching, with his right hand raised, to praise a divine figure(?) on a stand, mounted in a glazed and gilded wooden frame, Ptolemaic, circa 4th-3rd Century B.C.

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A HIERATIC HEART SPELL PAPYRUS FRAGMENT, extracts from Spells 26-30, written in black ink, a vignette above the text showing the deceased, wearing a long wrapped over skirt, tied above the waist, holding a piece of cloth in his left hand and approaching, with his right hand raised, to praise a divine figure(?) on a stand, mounted in a glazed and gilded wooden frame, Ptolemaic, circa 4th-3rd Century B.C.
6¼ x 2in. (16.9 x 5.1cm.) max.

Lot Essay

Cf. S. Schoske and A. Wildung, Ägyptische Kunst München, Munich, no. 84 for a similar figure on a papyrus

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