AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE AND WOOD IBIS COFFIN
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXV, CIRCA 747-656 B.C.
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE AND WOOD IBIS COFFIN THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXV, CIRCA 747-656 B.C. The ibis depicted seated, the body sculpted in wood, covered in gesso and gilded, the legs, head and tail feathers each separately cast in bronze, the legs folded under, with a sinuous neck and long bill, the bronze figure of a Kushite pharaoh making an offering kneeling in front, wearing kilt and uraeus headdress, both mounted on a gesso painted wood coffin 7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) long
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE AND WOOD IBIS COFFIN
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXV, CIRCA 747-656 B.C.
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE AND WOOD IBIS COFFIN THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXV, CIRCA 747-656 B.C. The ibis depicted seated, the body sculpted in wood, covered in gesso and gilded, the legs, head and tail feathers each separately cast in bronze, the legs folded under, with a sinuous neck and long bill, the bronze figure of a Kushite pharaoh making an offering kneeling in front, wearing kilt and uraeus headdress, both mounted on a gesso painted wood coffin 7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) long
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