A GESSO-PAINTED WOODEN SHRINE PANEL, depicting a scene of a shrine with ornamental frieze, winged sun disk and uraei flanked by two sphinxes, with scene below of L) King wearing the crown of Lower Egypt worshipping a falcon-headed deity in a shrine, a central djed -pillar and R) King wearing the crown of Upper Egypt worshipping a baboon-headed deity in a shrine. Below, two figures of Horus-re on either side of a cartouche, between three bands of ankh and djed -pillars and two bands of ankh and was signs, mounted, Ptolemaic, circa 3rd-1st Century B.C. 12½ x 7¼in. (31.9 x 18.5cm.)
A GESSO-PAINTED WOODEN SHRINE PANEL, depicting a scene of a shrine with ornamental frieze, winged sun disk and uraei flanked by two sphinxes, with scene below of L) King wearing the crown of Lower Egypt worshipping a falcon-headed deity in a shrine, a central djed -pillar and R) King wearing the crown of Upper Egypt worshipping a baboon-headed deity in a shrine. Below, two figures of Horus-re on either side of a cartouche, between three bands of ankh and djed -pillars and two bands of ankh and was signs, mounted, Ptolemaic, circa 3rd-1st Century B.C. 12½ x 7¼in. (31.9 x 18.5cm.)
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