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PROPERTY FROM A WEST COAST COLLECTION
AN EGYPTIAN WOOD FALCON-HEADED COFFIN
LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.
Details
AN EGYPTIAN WOOD FALCON-HEADED COFFIN
LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.
Painted in black, adorned with a tripartite headcloth, decorated in contrasting pigment with Isis and Nephthys standing on the lappets, and a multi-strand broad collar, the body with a horizontal band of standing deities, with three columns of hieroglyphs below, reading: "Recitation by the [Os]iris...they...the falcon/god (?) Lord of Per-Nu...the falcon(?)...you have...among the [gods],......your stride. Do not perish!(?)...It is...of your (?) offerings...all/Lord (?)...the heart of (?)...You are great, [Horus ?], Lord among the children, you have pacified the dangerous one, that... might act...who is in (?), him,...He has caused that one join/unite with Thoth, that your (?) keeper desist, that you (?) go forth forever and ever..;" containing a fragmentary "corn" mummy with a gilt wax Osiris mask
19¾ in. (50.1 cm.) long
LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.
Painted in black, adorned with a tripartite headcloth, decorated in contrasting pigment with Isis and Nephthys standing on the lappets, and a multi-strand broad collar, the body with a horizontal band of standing deities, with three columns of hieroglyphs below, reading: "Recitation by the [Os]iris...they...the falcon/god (?) Lord of Per-Nu...the falcon(?)...you have...among the [gods],...
19¾ in. (50.1 cm.) long
Provenance
Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 16 May 1980, lot 407.
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