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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD SARCOPHAGUS LID FRAGMENT
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 332-30 B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD SARCOPHAGUS LID FRAGMENT
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 332-30 B.C.
Decorated with a winged Isis with outstretched wings and holding Maat feathers, a mummification scene below, which is under the horizontal blue sign symbolising the sky, with Anubis holding a tapering vessel above the mummy's head, the mummy lying on a lion bed, with four canopic jars underneath and flanked by Isis on the left in front of an Isis knot, a djed pillar and Nephthys on the right in front of a lotus flower, five columns of hieroglyphs below, protected by a snake wearing the crown of Lower Egypt on the left
28 ¾ in. (72 cm.) high; 16 ½ in. (42 cm.) wide
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 332-30 B.C.
Decorated with a winged Isis with outstretched wings and holding Maat feathers, a mummification scene below, which is under the horizontal blue sign symbolising the sky, with Anubis holding a tapering vessel above the mummy's head, the mummy lying on a lion bed, with four canopic jars underneath and flanked by Isis on the left in front of an Isis knot, a djed pillar and Nephthys on the right in front of a lotus flower, five columns of hieroglyphs below, protected by a snake wearing the crown of Lower Egypt on the left
28 ¾ in. (72 cm.) high; 16 ½ in. (42 cm.) wide
來源
Private collection, France, acquired from Pierre Verite, Galerie Carrefour, Paris, September 1970.
榮譽呈獻
Francesca Hickin
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