A wood gesso-painted anthropoid mask, with inlaid eyes and brows, wearing elaborate collar -- 16in. (40.8cm.) high, Late Period (712-332 B.C.); a gesso-painted wood sarcophagus lid, with brightly painted floral collar, horizontal panels of a winged scarab, winged Isis, and a mourning burial scene, with columns of hieroglyphs below, heavily repaired -- 45½in. (115.5cm.) long; and another, with painted djed-pillar surmounted by a winged scarab, and panels of 'hieroglyphs' -- 40½in. (103cm.) long

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A wood gesso-painted anthropoid mask, with inlaid eyes and brows, wearing elaborate collar -- 16in. (40.8cm.) high, Late Period (712-332 B.C.); a gesso-painted wood sarcophagus lid, with brightly painted floral collar, horizontal panels of a winged scarab, winged Isis, and a mourning burial scene, with columns of hieroglyphs below, heavily repaired -- 45½in. (115.5cm.) long; and another, with painted djed-pillar surmounted by a winged scarab, and panels of 'hieroglyphs' -- 40½in. (103cm.) long
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