.jpg?w=1)
Property from a Connecticut Private Collection
AN EGYPTIAN GILT CARTONNAGE MUMMY MASK
LATE PTOLEMAIC PERIOD TO EARLY ROMAN PERIOD CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
細節
AN EGYPTIAN GILT CARTONNAGE MUMMY MASK
LATE PTOLEMAIC PERIOD TO EARLY ROMAN PERIOD
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
Decorated with polychrome over gesso, with areas of gilding including the face, broad foliate relief collar, the diadem, and the surmounting winged scarab, the hieroglyphic inscription on the diadem reading, "O...of the sun's radiance, whom Horus has knit together(?), god(?) of the hill country/foreign land(?), may he give a goodly burial and invocation offerings of bread and beer, oxen and fowl, everything (for) the Osiris...ankhespa...(?)...O...of the sun's radiance, whom Horus has knit together(?), god(?)...the Fayum, Sokar in (?) the Fayum (and?) Osiris, that he may give a goodly burial and invocation offerings of beer...," the inscription on the fillet ties reading, "Harakhty as Re/the sun forever(?)...equipped(?)," a sacred boat on the knot of the fillet, the white eyes with black irises, thin brows and extended cosmetic lines, the tripartite wig dark blue, the goddess Nut standing at the sides of the wig above the shoulders, her wings outstretched with one angled up and one angled down, each protecting a squatting figure of Osiris in the pose of Maat, the garment below the lappets decorated with a net pattern
15 in. (38.1 cm.) high
LATE PTOLEMAIC PERIOD TO EARLY ROMAN PERIOD
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
Decorated with polychrome over gesso, with areas of gilding including the face, broad foliate relief collar, the diadem, and the surmounting winged scarab, the hieroglyphic inscription on the diadem reading, "O...of the sun's radiance, whom Horus has knit together(?), god(?) of the hill country/foreign land(?), may he give a goodly burial and invocation offerings of bread and beer, oxen and fowl, everything (for) the Osiris...ankhespa...(?)...O...of the sun's radiance, whom Horus has knit together(?), god(?)...the Fayum, Sokar in (?) the Fayum (and?) Osiris, that he may give a goodly burial and invocation offerings of beer...," the inscription on the fillet ties reading, "Harakhty as Re/the sun forever(?)...equipped(?)," a sacred boat on the knot of the fillet, the white eyes with black irises, thin brows and extended cosmetic lines, the tripartite wig dark blue, the goddess Nut standing at the sides of the wig above the shoulders, her wings outstretched with one angled up and one angled down, each protecting a squatting figure of Osiris in the pose of Maat, the garment below the lappets decorated with a net pattern
15 in. (38.1 cm.) high
來源
London Art Market, early 1980s.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 23 June 1989, lot 97.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 23 June 1989, lot 97.