AN EGYPTIAN WOOD FIGURE OF PTAH-SOKAR-OSIRIS
Property from a German private collection
AN EGYPTIAN WOOD FIGURE OF PTAH-SOKAR-OSIRIS

LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN WOOD FIGURE OF PTAH-SOKAR-OSIRIS
LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.
23 ½ in. (59.5 cm.) high
Provenance
German private collection, acquired prior to 1967; and thence by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The base with a standard offering formula to `Osiris, Isis, Nephthys, Horus avenger of his father, Anubis, that they give invocation offerings of bread, beer, flesh and fowl, wine, milk, incense, water....for the Osiris, the sistrum player of Amun-Ra, Tia-Amun, begotten on the lady of the house, sistrum player of Amun-Ra, Dis-ese'.

The back pillar also names the sistrum player Tia-Amun, begotten on the lady of the house, the sistrum player of Amun-Ra, Dis-ese.

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