EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME WOOD SARCOPHAGUS PANEL
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Ptolemaic to Roman Period, Ca. 332 BC - AD 395 .
A wooden panel, likely cedar, from the top section of a sarcophagus. The tapered panel is covered in gesso and painted with vibrant hues of red, blue, white and black. Decorating the top half is a lower section of a wesekh pectoral collar laden with painted beads of myriad forms while below is a wadjet eye, two columns of hieroglyphs, and a winged Isis kneeling with arms outstretched. The two columns of hieroglyphs translate as: May Osiris the god of the ennead be pleased. The item is enclosed in a custom-made wood display frame. This piece is accompanied by a report from Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition.
Size: 420mm x 215mm; Weight: 875g
Provenance: Property of a central London gallery; Ex. German collection formed since the 1970s,acquired on the European art market. Accompanied by a German export license. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
A wooden panel, likely cedar, from the top section of a sarcophagus. The tapered panel is covered in gesso and painted with vibrant hues of red, blue, white and black. Decorating the top half is a lower section of a wesekh pectoral collar laden with painted beads of myriad forms while below is a wadjet eye, two columns of hieroglyphs, and a winged Isis kneeling with arms outstretched. The two columns of hieroglyphs translate as: May Osiris the god of the ennead be pleased. The item is enclosed in a custom-made wood display frame. This piece is accompanied by a report from Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition.
Size: 420mm x 215mm; Weight: 875g
Provenance: Property of a central London gallery; Ex. German collection formed since the 1970s,acquired on the European art market. Accompanied by a German export license. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
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EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME WOOD SARCOPHAGUS PANEL
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