Ancient Egypt, Ptolemaic period, ca. 305 to 30 BCE. A fine gesso-lined wooden sarcophagus fragment illustrating the god Horus, the falcon-headed brother of Osiris and one of the most significant and powerful deities in Egyptian mythos. He is depicted standing in mummiform with a red-painted body decorated with dozens of intersecting diagonal stripes, and holding a lengthy staff with a forked bottom end with green-brown hands indicative of being deceased. The deity has a characteristic avian-style head and wears a tri-color wig topped with a feathered crown of Upper Egypt with a frontal uraeus. The figure is painted in red, blue, black, and green-brown hues atop a faded yellow ground, with a segmented vertical bar behind and a red and black bar on top. A beautiful example from ancient Egypt! Displayed within three acrylic arms on a burlap-lined wooden frame. Size (fragment): 5.375" W x 13.5" H (13.7 cm x 34.3 cm); size (frame): 16.5" W x 20.375" H (41.9 cm x 51.8 cm).

Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection

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This item is a fragment of a larger wooden sarcophagus. Surface wear and minor abrasions commensurate with age, fading and darkening to some areas of pigmentation, and light roughness along illustration and around peripheries. Light earthen deposits throughout.