Lot Essay
A CT scan revealed the mummy to be filled with grain. See the Los Angeles Times, 21 December 1991, p. B5.
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Property from a California Private Collection
AN EGYPTIAN "CORN" MUMMY AND WOOD SARCOPHAGUS
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD TO ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
Details
AN EGYPTIAN "CORN" MUMMY AND WOOD SARCOPHAGUS
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD TO ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
The mummiform falcon-headed wood lid and base brightly painted in black, blue, cream and red, the face gilt, with black details for the eyes and markings, further adorned with a tripartite wig, the lappets striped, the broad collar centered by a lotus blossom, falcon terminals on the shoulders, the body with two uraei flanking an ankh-sign, with an inscription beginning on the underside of the base in one column of hieroglyphs and continuing in five columns of hieroglyphs along the ankles and feet of the lid, reading: "Hail to, Flier (with) two arms who hastens, who comes forth as (or from) this newly-born(?) god, who comes forth in jubilation, Osiris, Foremost of the West, Great God, Lord of Abydos. May Bakennut(?) live with/before Re; the name is united with the earth, with/before. ... (?) companion(?) of heaven (?), in eternity;" the interior with the resin-coated grain mummy wrapped in linen, covered with a sheet-silver repoussé Osiris visage, an applied uraeus along its crown
19 in. (48.3 cm.) high
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD TO ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
The mummiform falcon-headed wood lid and base brightly painted in black, blue, cream and red, the face gilt, with black details for the eyes and markings, further adorned with a tripartite wig, the lappets striped, the broad collar centered by a lotus blossom, falcon terminals on the shoulders, the body with two uraei flanking an ankh-sign, with an inscription beginning on the underside of the base in one column of hieroglyphs and continuing in five columns of hieroglyphs along the ankles and feet of the lid, reading: "Hail to
19 in. (48.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 13 December 1980, lot 206.
Exhibited
San Diego Museum of Man, mid 1980s-2010.
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