AN EGYPTIAN GESSO-PAINTED WOODEN ANTHROPOID SARCOPHAGUS AND MUMMY OF A PRIEST OF AMUN THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXI-XXII, CIRCA 960-900 B.C., FROM THEBES Wearing tripartite wig, beard and broad floral collar, with modelled hands each carrying a mekes -symbol, below a winged sun-disc and a kneeling figure of a winged goddess, probably the sky goddess Nut, flanked by further protective symbols and deities with accompanying hieroglyphs, the painted decoration symbolising solar rebirth or Osirian afterlife, the insides of the coffin painted red, the floor with profile of the goddess of the West, two columns of hieroglyphs on the foot; and an accompanying glazed wooden display case 76¼ in. (194 cm.) long excl. display case
AN EGYPTIAN GESSO-PAINTED WOODEN ANTHROPOID SARCOPHAGUS AND MUMMY OF A PRIEST OF AMUN THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXI-XXII, CIRCA 960-900 B.C., FROM THEBES Wearing tripartite wig, beard and broad floral collar, with modelled hands each carrying a mekes -symbol, below a winged sun-disc and a kneeling figure of a winged goddess, probably the sky goddess Nut, flanked by further protective symbols and deities with accompanying hieroglyphs, the painted decoration symbolising solar rebirth or Osirian afterlife, the insides of the coffin painted red, the floor with profile of the goddess of the West, two columns of hieroglyphs on the foot; and an accompanying glazed wooden display case 76¼ in. (194 cm.) long excl. display case
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