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THE PROPERTY OF A NORTH AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD COFFIN FOR HENES-HEPET-EN-AMUN
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD TO EARLY LATE PERIOD, 21ST-26TH DYNASTY, 1070-525 B.C.
Details
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD COFFIN FOR HENES-HEPET-EN-AMUN
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD TO EARLY LATE PERIOD, 21ST-26TH DYNASTY, 1070-525 B.C.
Gessoed and brightly painted, comprised of an anthropoid lid and trough, on a rectangular integral plinth, the deceased wearing a striped tripartite headcloth centered by a scarab, with triangles along its edges, his face with large black irises within elongated eyes, with extended cosmetic lines and conforming brows, adorned with an elaborate, multi-strand, beaded broad collar, with falcon-head terminals, a winged scarab at his chest, the body with the Four Sons of Horus facing inward, flanking a column of hieroglyphs, reading: "A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris Foremost of the West, Great God, Lord of Abydos, that he may give Invocation-Offerings of beer, oxen and fowl, offerings;" two columns of hieroglyphs on the reverse, the right column, reading: "Recitation by Osiris, Foremost of the West, Great God, Lord of Abydos, that he may give Invocation-Offerings of beer, oxen and fowl, offerings and food, incense and oil, clothing (and alabaster?), and every good, pure thing, for the Ka of the Osiris Henes-hepet-en-Amun, son of Nayu-tja-en(?);" the left column reading: "A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris, Foremost of , Lord of Abydos, that he may give Invocation-Offerings of beer, oxen and fowl, offerings and food, incense and oil, clothing (and alabaster?), and every good, pure thing the Ka of the Osiris Henes-hepet-en-Amun, son of Nau-tjau(?);" and a band running along the base, the front with a mirror-image text, reading out from the center: "A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris, Foremost;" the right side, reading: "that he may give Invocation-Offerings of beer, oxen and fowl, offerings;" and the left side, reading: "Invocation-Offerings of oxen and fowl, offerings and food;" and the back, reading: "A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris, Foremost of the West, Great God, Lord"
64 in. (162.6 cm.) high
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD TO EARLY LATE PERIOD, 21ST-26TH DYNASTY, 1070-525 B.C.
Gessoed and brightly painted, comprised of an anthropoid lid and trough, on a rectangular integral plinth, the deceased wearing a striped tripartite headcloth centered by a scarab, with triangles along its edges, his face with large black irises within elongated eyes, with extended cosmetic lines and conforming brows, adorned with an elaborate, multi-strand, beaded broad collar, with falcon-head terminals, a winged scarab at his chest, the body with the Four Sons of Horus facing inward, flanking a column of hieroglyphs, reading: "A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris Foremost of the West, Great God, Lord of Abydos, that he may give Invocation-Offerings of
64 in. (162.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Private Collection, Milan, 1979 or prior.
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 10 June 1994, lot 53.
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 10 June 1994, lot 53.
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