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An Egyptian wood anthropoid coffin fragment
7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
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An Egyptian wood anthropoid coffin fragment
Late Period, circa 664-30 B.C.
The curved inner face gesso painted with a dark red ground, decorated with two mummiform denizens of the Underworld, each standing behind a stand with a water vessel, the rear figure with a black and white speckled bull's head, the front a bearded snake's head wearing a feather, a panel of text before the snake-headed figure reading: 'words spoken by Isis-Nephthys, lady of the two lands, Thoth the great god', along the top of the panel are two rows of text, the top reading: 'revered before Thoth(?) priest of Mut, priest of ? the great', bottom row: 'Revered before...' 44cm high
Late Period, circa 664-30 B.C.
The curved inner face gesso painted with a dark red ground, decorated with two mummiform denizens of the Underworld, each standing behind a stand with a water vessel, the rear figure with a black and white speckled bull's head, the front a bearded snake's head wearing a feather, a panel of text before the snake-headed figure reading: 'words spoken by Isis-Nephthys, lady of the two lands, Thoth the great god', along the top of the panel are two rows of text, the top reading: 'revered before Thoth(?) priest of Mut, priest of ? the great', bottom row: 'Revered before...' 44cm high
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Provenance:
French private collection, acquired circa 1970.
























