AN EGYPTIAN GESSO-PAINTED WOOD OSIRIS SARCOPHAGUS

LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN GESSO-PAINTED WOOD OSIRIS SARCOPHAGUS
LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.
Depicted mummiform, his arms crossed at the chest, wearing a plumed atef-crown with frontal uraeus, now missing, with a false beard, holding a crook and a flail, plumes detailed with red stripes, eyes, brows, beard and collar indicated in black, with hollow interior
25 ½ in. (64.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Michael Rice collection, UK, acquired 1960s-1970s.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
M. Rice, Egypt's Making: The Origins of Egypt 5000-2000BC, London, 1990, p.77, no. 29a.

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