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763 - EGYPTIAN SARCOPHAGUS PANEL PARTIALLY GILDED, WITH EMBALMING …

Estimate £12,000 - £20,000

Description

EGYPTIAN SARCOPHAGUS PANEL PARTIALLY GILDED, WITH EMBALMING SCENE AND DEITIES. Ptolemaic Period, Ca. 332 - 30 BC. A mummy cover with a multi-rowed neck collar, each end terminating in a falcon head with a sun disk on its head, and a gilded pectoral on the chest. At the top is a winged falcon with a sun disk on its head and two feathers in its talons. At the centre is the winged sky goddess Nut, with a sun disk on her head, adorned with two feathers. Below is a depiction of the Judgment of the Dead with the cradle scene of the heart (cf. the vignette for chapter 125 of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead). Below is an embalming scene, with the deceased lying on a lion-shaped embalming table, beneath which are the four canopic jars containing the deceased’s entrails. The canine-headed necropolis god Anubis bends over the body during the embalming process (cf. the vignette for chapter 151 of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead). To the left of the embalming table is the anthropomorphic protective goddess Nephthys, and behind her is Hapi, the baboon-headed son of Horus, protective god of the liver. To the right is the anthropomorphic protective goddess Isis, and behind her is Imsety, the anthropomorphic son of Horus, protective god of the lungs. At the bottom, is the solar barque with its divine crew. The left border of the cover shows various protective deities arranged one below the other. The right border shows the four sons of Horus responsible for the embalming of the liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines: Imsety, Hapi, Duamutef, and Qebehsenuef. For similar see: Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, Inv. 2005-10; K. Parlasca, H. Seemann, Augenblicke. Mumienporträts und ägyptische Grabkunst aus römischer Zeit [Moments: Mummy Portraits and Egyptian Funerary Art from the Roman Period]. Munich 1999, cat. 230. For the vignette for chapter 151 of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, cf. S. Guichard, Jean-François Champollion, Notice descriptive des monuments égyptiens du musée Charles X [Description of Egyptian Monuments of the Museum of the Charles X]. Paris 2013, p. 128 (N 4055); Cf. K. Parlasca/H. Seemann, Augenblicke. Mumienporträts und ägyptische Grabkunst aus römischer Zeit [Moments: Mummy Portraits and Egyptian Funerary Art from the Roman Period]. Munich 1999, cat. 3. For the vignette for chapter 125 of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, see K. Parlasca/H. Seemann, Augenblicke. Mumienporträts und ägyptische Grabkunst aus römischer Zeit. Munich 1999, Cat. 206e. Size: 475mm x 335mm; Weight: 525g Provenance: Private London, acquired on the German art market; From the Erika Krautkrämer Collection; Ex Galerie Puhze, catalogue 24, 2010, no. 189; Previously in the Felix Lauwers Collection, Belgium, acquired before 1980. This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Lisa Sartini, Egyptologist PHD of Chimera Heritage Consultants. This item has a German Export License. This item has been checked against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.

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