Egyptian Painted Papyrus Fragment

Egyptian Painted Papyrus Fragment

$85,000.00
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Origin: EgyptCirca: Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, 1070 BC to 712 BC Dimensions: 5.15" Height x 21.5 Width (13.1 cm x 54.6 cm)Medium: Papyrus The fragment is divided in two parts, with a winged sun disc surmounting the deceased to the right.  He wears a white tunic with red stripes on the sleeve, and a bag wig, held with a white fillet tied at the rear that is topped with a perfume cone.  He offers incense to the falcon-headed god Re-Harakhty-Atum, seen wearing a red sun disc encircled by a uraeus, a blue wig, a broad beaded collar, while holding a crook and a flail.  On the left, there is a scene from the 12th Hour of the Book of Amduat, with a procession of eight figures facing right adoring the Sun God. They are outlined in black with added red, some with fire-spitting snakes coming out of their mouth, seen with hieroglyphic text above and below. Four columns of hieroglyphs above the deceased, read: "Adoring Re, the foremost (?), possessor of goodness, the Osiris Overseer

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