ANOTHER GESSO-PAINTED WOODEN FURNITURE PANEL PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD-1ST CENTURY B.C. Depicting a cavetto-corniced shrine with kheker -frieze above, winged sun-disc flanked by two sphinxes below, the main panel showing a djed -column flanked by the King wearing the Red and White Crown respectively worshipping before deities in a shrine, with three rows of alternating djed -columns and tyet -girdles, the lower scene with snake entwined cartouche flanked by falcons wearing sun-discs and two outer heliophorous uraei, with alternating ankh (life) and was (dominion)-signs in a frieze below, repaired, mounted 12¼ x 7 1/8 in. (31 x 18.1 cm.) max.
ANOTHER GESSO-PAINTED WOODEN FURNITURE PANEL PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD-1ST CENTURY B.C. Depicting a cavetto-corniced shrine with kheker -frieze above, winged sun-disc flanked by two sphinxes below, the main panel showing a djed -column flanked by the King wearing the Red and White Crown respectively worshipping before deities in a shrine, with three rows of alternating djed -columns and tyet -girdles, the lower scene with snake entwined cartouche flanked by falcons wearing sun-discs and two outer heliophorous uraei, with alternating ankh (life) and was (dominion)-signs in a frieze below, repaired, mounted 12¼ x 7 1/8 in. (31 x 18.1 cm.) max.
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