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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE FUNERARY STATUE FOR PASUNU
NEW KINGDOM TO THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XIX-XXII, 1307-712 B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE FUNERARY STATUE FOR PASUNU
NEW KINGDOM TO THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XIX-XXII, 1307-712 B.C.
Depicted lying on a rectangular bier with his hands on his thighs in an attitude of prayer, the bier raised up on two supports set back from each end, wearing a pleated kilt, a tunic with flaring sleeves, and a striated tripartite wig with banded lappets, his oval face with large lidded eyes beneath long brows in relief, his lips pursed into a smile, a hieroglyphic inscription down the front of the kilt, reading: "The Osiris, Pasunu, Justified," preserving traces of pigment including yellow for the garments, red for the fleshtones and black for the wig
8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) long
NEW KINGDOM TO THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XIX-XXII, 1307-712 B.C.
Depicted lying on a rectangular bier with his hands on his thighs in an attitude of prayer, the bier raised up on two supports set back from each end, wearing a pleated kilt, a tunic with flaring sleeves, and a striated tripartite wig with banded lappets, his oval face with large lidded eyes beneath long brows in relief, his lips pursed into a smile, a hieroglyphic inscription down the front of the kilt, reading: "The Osiris, Pasunu, Justified," preserving traces of pigment including yellow for the garments, red for the fleshtones and black for the wig
8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) long
Provenance
with Michel Abemayor, New York, 1971.
Literature
S. D'Auria, P. Lacovara, and C.H. Roehrig, Mummies and Magic, The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, Boston, 1988, no. 75, p. 137-138.
Exhibited
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Mummies and Magic, The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, 14 September-11 December 1988.
Brought to you by
G. Max Bernheimer
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