AN EGYPTIAN WOOD SARCOPHAGUS
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXV-XXVI, CIRCA 747-525 B.C.
AN EGYPTIAN WOOD SARCOPHAGUS LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXV-XXVI, CIRCA 747-525 B.C. Complete with lid and box, gessoed and painted, the deceased depicted wearing a striped wig, the green face with white and black stone inlaid eyes, bronze eyelines and brows, wearing a false beard and a broad collar, a single line of hieroglyphic text around the feet, containing an offering formula for Iy, reading: 'that he may give water, (for) the ba, offerings (for) the corpse, clothing (for) the mummy, (for) the ka of the...Osiris, the God's Father, Guardian Iy, son of...true of voice' 72 in. (183 cm.) high
AN EGYPTIAN WOOD SARCOPHAGUS
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXV-XXVI, CIRCA 747-525 B.C.
AN EGYPTIAN WOOD SARCOPHAGUS LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXV-XXVI, CIRCA 747-525 B.C. Complete with lid and box, gessoed and painted, the deceased depicted wearing a striped wig, the green face with white and black stone inlaid eyes, bronze eyelines and brows, wearing a false beard and a broad collar, a single line of hieroglyphic text around the feet, containing an offering formula for Iy, reading: 'that he may give water, (for) the ba, offerings (for) the corpse, clothing (for) the mummy, (for) the ka of the...Osiris, the God's Father, Guardian Iy, son of...true of voice' 72 in. (183 cm.) high
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