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This is the rating and price for An Egyptian Polychrome Painted Wood Canopic Jar Box Ptolemaic Period, Cir



Description : AN EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME PAINTED WOOD CANOPIC JAR BOX PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 323-30 B.C. Each side decorated, the two side panels with three Sons of Horus as mummiform figures, one with Anubis, Imsety and Hapy, the other with Qebhesenuef, Imsety and Anubis, a floral band below, then a row of seated protective deities with knives on their knees, a scale pattern below, one end panel decorated with a shrine surmounted by the head of Osiris wearing the atef crown, flanked by Nephthys and Isis, naming the owner as Takhenme(t) born of Taresy(?), a floral band below, beneath which sit four deities with maat feathers on their knees, flanking a girdle of Isis, scale pattern below, the other end panel with a squatting figure of ??, an ankh sign on the knee, beneath a double headed uraeus, one head wearing the White Crown, the other the Red Crown, a floral band below and four seated protective deities beneath, with knives on their knees, the lid has an Anubis jackal reclining on a shrine with a sekhem-sceptre before him and a flail over his shoulder, 36cm high, 26.4cm width of base, 19.8cm depth of base
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Estimate (low-high) : 12000 GBP-18000 GBP It's free to register now to view!

About the lot N° 183
Title : An Egyptian Polychrome Painted Wood Canopic Jar Box Ptolemaic Period, Cir
Provenance : Provenance: Dutch private collection. Acquired by the collector's grandfather before 1974, thence by descent. Literature: For another canopic jar box of similar form cf. S. D'Auria, P. Lacovara, C.H. Roehrig, Mummies and Magic, the Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, Boston, 1988, no.143. (detail of lid)
Bonhams 3, auctioneer It's free to register now to view!
Sale title : Antiquities
Sale date : 30 Nov 2016 It's free to register now to view!
Sale Reference : Live Sale

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