Beschreibung:

AN EGYPTIAN GESSO-PAINTED WOOD ANTHROPOID SARCOPHAGUS PANEL WITH ASCENSION SCENE
LATE NEW KINGDOM, DYNASTY XXI-EARLY DYNASTY XXII, CIRCA 1069-920 B.C.
AN EGYPTIAN GESSO-PAINTED WOOD ANTHROPOID SARCOPHAGUS PANEL WITH ASCENSION SCENE LATE NEW KINGDOM, DYNASTY XXI-EARLY DYNASTY XXII, CIRCA 1069-920 B.C. Wearing a broad floral collar with rosettes and lotus flower terminals and cross mummy bands supporting a shrine pectoral depicting two solar figures worshipping the cartouche of Djeser-ka-re (deified Amenhotep I), encompassed by the sun disc and two white crowned uraei terminals; each separately attached hand holding a papyrus scroll, knees indicated. The scenes on the panels from bottom to top: four and part of two remaining panels, each partition depicting variously the mummiform deceased "the honoured one" before the shrine of Osiris and Isis, Osiris and Nephthys, Ptah-Sokar, and Anubis, a central column invoking the gods Ra-Harakhty-Atum and Osiris, foremost of the Westerners, Lord of Abydos, to give life, prosperity, health, an exalted life and ripe old age ... to the owner; above the tomb chapel, a winged scarab holding a sun disc flanked by Anubis figures, the ba -soul bird worshipping before table of offerings at feet of Osirian figures, flanking the Fetish of Abydos, protective goddesses on either side, above a seated winged goddess wearing double plumes from which emerges the transcendant scarab beetle khepri wearing a hemhem -crown supporting two uraei and ankh (life) signs, on each side an Osirian figure wearing a solar disc protected by a winged goddess supporting a mummiform figure holding a heka -sceptre seated on a heb (purification) throne, mounted, with glazed wood case 62 in. (157.5 cm.) high