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AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD CANOPIC BOX
Late Period to Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 B.C.
Gessoed and painted, with two sides identically decorated with four registers of solar disked-uraei, knife-wielding guardian deities, alternating djed and tyet amulets, and a serekh frieze, the back with column-supported figures of Anubis framing Wadjet, the winged cobra, "making protection" and Nut, each flanking a scarab, the front in two registers, the lower with figures of Anubis on a column flanking Horus and Thoth erecting a central djed-pillar, the upper depicting portals to the hereafter, guarded by Anubis images and inscribed for the deceased, perhaps named Nes-min
12 in. (30.5 cm) high
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