Lot Essay
For a similar example in Vienna see fig. 45, p. 312 in Schultz and Seidel, eds., Egypt, The World of the Pharaohs.
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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ALAN DERSHOWITZ AND CAROLYN COHEN
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD ROUND-TOPPED STELE FOR HOR
EARLY PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 4TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD ROUND-TOPPED STELE FOR HOR
EARLY PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 4TH CENTURY B.C.
Painted in vibrant colors over gesso, the arching top with a winged solar-disk flanked by two uraei, with hieroglyphs below, reading (twice): "The Behdetite as he gives an offering" on either side of an ankh ("life")," the main panel below with the deceased at the far right, striding to the left with his arms raised in supplication, with a train of deities including Osiris holding a was-scepter, Isis, Nepthys and Anubis, framed within a multicolored border, with three rows of hieroglyphs below, reading: "A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris, Foremost of the West, Great God, Lord of Abydos, that he may give all sorts of offerings and all sorts of sustenance (for) the Ka of the Osiris Hor, son of Pa-Tja; his mother is the Lady of the House"
11½ in. (29.2 cm.) high
EARLY PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 4TH CENTURY B.C.
Painted in vibrant colors over gesso, the arching top with a winged solar-disk flanked by two uraei, with hieroglyphs below, reading (twice): "The Behdetite as he gives an offering" on either side of an ankh ("life")," the main panel below with the deceased at the far right, striding to the left with his arms raised in supplication, with a train of deities including Osiris holding a was-scepter, Isis, Nepthys and Anubis, framed within a multicolored border, with three rows of hieroglyphs below, reading: "A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris, Foremost of the West, Great God, Lord of Abydos, that he may give all sorts of offerings and all sorts of sustenance (for) the Ka of the Osiris Hor, son of Pa-Tja; his mother is the Lady of the House"
11½ in. (29.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Jay Gould Collection (1836-1892), New York.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 14 June 1993, lot 22.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 14 June 1993, lot 22.
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