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THBEgyptian 3rd Intermediate Period Wood Sarcophagus Cover
Lot 60c
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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- Lot Description
Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, 22nd to 24th Dynasty, ca. 945 to 732 BCE. A life-size, wooden coffin cover adorned with gesso over linen, with an overall beige ground having a golden-brown complexion with finely painted and modeled features including wide open eyes gazing steadfastly ahead, framed by elegant brows that lead to a straight nose, and gently smiling lips above a pointy chin, the visage further adorned by a tripartite headdress/wig, covered with painted 'inlaid' square and rectangular stones delineated in azure blue and russet red over creamy white and a 'beaded' band of the same color scheme with a large black scarab as its centerpiece. Decorating the chest is a wide, pectoral, intricately detailed with registers of 'beaded' and 'inlaid' motifs in this same beautiful color scheme as well as a large "X" motif at the center. Below, the body is painted with a black silhouette of Anubis sitting in profile above a large vertical glyph band that states that an offering is given by Anubis. Size: 11.5" W x 47" H (29.2 cm x 119.4 cm); 47.375" H (120.3 cm) on included custom stand.
Anthropoid Egyptian coffins first appeared by the Middle Kingdom - skillfully carved so as to outline the mummy's body and decorated with the visage and wig of the deceased individual. Such coffins not only served to copy the mummy's form kept within, but also served as actual substitutes for the bodies in the event that the mummy's body was lost or destroyed. As time progressed, these coffins were decorated with more extensive iconographic programs, presenting a greater number of inscriptions and scenes as we see in this example.
Provenance: private Davis collection, Houston, Texas, USA; ex-private European collection, acquired from the European art market; ex-private Switzerland collection, 1980
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#132783Some expected surface wear with pigment loss as shown, though much remains. Some fissures to the gessoed linen. Some of the perforations around the perimeter (created for original attachment to the sarcophagus) still contain remnants of wooden dowels. Losses to peripheries as shown. Painting of face, headdress, and collar is original. Beige paint on lower section was probably added later, and black hieroglyphic passage and Anubis has probably been enhanced. A fissure like across the piece - a few inches below Anubis - suggests that the cover broke at one time and was repaired.Condition
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