A large Egyptian wood sarcophagus section
Late Period, circa 664-30 B.C.
The mask with polychrome painted gesso details, shown wearing a striped black and white wig, the face carved with exaggerated features, painted between the lapels with the deceased, standing before Osiris, with an udjat eye below and remains of a broad collar with falcon head terminal, approx 23½in (60cm) high, mounted in a perspex box
Late Period, circa 664-30 B.C.
The mask with polychrome painted gesso details, shown wearing a striped black and white wig, the face carved with exaggerated features, painted between the lapels with the deceased, standing before Osiris, with an udjat eye below and remains of a broad collar with falcon head terminal, approx 23½in (60cm) high, mounted in a perspex box
Sold for
£5,000
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
Frank and Joan Ross Collection, formed in California in the 1960s-1970s. Accompanied by a copy of a conservation invoice from the Los Angeles Museum of Art, dated 1972.
Category: Antiquities
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