Beschreibung:

AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED FUNERARY PAPYRUS FRAGMENT FOR THE OVERSEER OF THE SERVANTS OF THE FIRST PROPHET OF AMEN-RE, AMENMOSE
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 21ST DYNASTY, CIRCA 1070-712 B.C.
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED FUNERARY PAPYRUS FRAGMENT FOR THE OVERSEER OF THE SERVANTS OF THE FIRST PROPHET OF AMEN-RE, AMENMOSE THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 21ST DYNASTY, CIRCA 1070-712 B.C. Divided in two parts, on the right a winged sun disc surmounting the deceased, wearing a white tunic with red stripes on sleeve, a bag wig held with a white fillet tied at the rear and topped with a perfume cone, offering incense to the falcon-headed god Re-Harakhty-Atum, wearing a red sun disc encircled by a uraeus, a blue wig and a broad beaded collar, holding a crook and a flail, four columns of hieroglyphs above the deceased, reading: 'Adoring Re, the foremost (?), possessor of goodness, the Osiris Overseer of the Servants of the First Prophet of Amen-Re King of the Gods, Amenmose [...]', and four columns of text above the deity, reading: ‘A royal offering to Re-Harakhty-Atum, lord of the two lands, the Southern Heliopolitan (=Armant), may he give the sacred sefet -oil, beer, oxen, fowl, incense, linen garment, and all things good and pure, (for) the Osiris, Overseer of the Judges, Amenmose, justified’; on the left, a scene from the 12th Hour of the Book of Amduat, with a procession of eight figures facing right adoring the Sun god, outline in black with some added red, some with fire-spitting snakes coming out of their mouth, with hieroglyphic text above and below 21 ½ x 5 1/8 in. (54.6 x 13.1 cm.)