A GESSO-PAINTED WOODEN ANTHROPOID SARCOPHAGUS LID, in the form of a female head wearing a red sun disk and twin uraei on the band across her forehead, a large petalled headdress with twin lappets, a broad lotus and petalled collar with falcon-headed terminals, a panel below showing a young girl, stripped to the waist, standing by a wadj -column offering incense(?) over an altar, with invocation below reading: "A-boon-which-the-king-gives that Osiris, foremost of the Westerners, the great god, Lord of Abydos, might grant offerings of bread, water, oxen and fowl and every....", Dynasty XIX-XX, circa 1250-1050 B.C. 53in. (134.6cm.) high
A GESSO-PAINTED WOODEN ANTHROPOID SARCOPHAGUS LID, in the form of a female head wearing a red sun disk and twin uraei on the band across her forehead, a large petalled headdress with twin lappets, a broad lotus and petalled collar with falcon-headed terminals, a panel below showing a young girl, stripped to the waist, standing by a wadj -column offering incense(?) over an altar, with invocation below reading: "A-boon-which-the-king-gives that Osiris, foremost of the Westerners, the great god, Lord of Abydos, might grant offerings of bread, water, oxen and fowl and every....", Dynasty XIX-XX, circa 1250-1050 B.C. 53in. (134.6cm.) high
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