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13.06.08
Year: XXVI-XXX Dinastia, 711-332 a.C.
Dimension: height 110, length 80 cm
Note: Minor color lossses and little fractues, otherwise in perfect condition.
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Egyptian Art - Upper part of a wooden Sarcophagus
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XXVI-XXX Dynasty, 711-332 a.C. Sizeable upper part of a wooden sarcophagus, the owner is depicted wearing a tripartite headdress with black and white band, bronze and alabaster inlaid eyes with the pupil painted in black, the mouth smiling in an enigmatic attitude. Three vertical lines of hieroglyphs for the deceased, probably a priest.
Anthropoid coffins, were believed to be the idealized substitute for the deceased should something happen to the body. The face on the coffin was essential, even though it was seldom a true portrait of the deceased and more often representational. The tomb was the deceased’s eternal house, and the coffin an enclosure to safeguard his earthly remains, or spirit. In this setting, life would be insured in the afterworld in the same way as on earth. To the ancient Egyptians there was no difference between the coffin’s function and its religious importance; they were intertwined. A wooden coffin, with its painted, symbolic, sacred decorations and scenes, was paramount to the devout.
Cod. 176/2002
Anthropoid coffins, were believed to be the idealized substitute for the deceased should something happen to the body. The face on the coffin was essential, even though it was seldom a true portrait of the deceased and more often representational. The tomb was the deceased’s eternal house, and the coffin an enclosure to safeguard his earthly remains, or spirit. In this setting, life would be insured in the afterworld in the same way as on earth. To the ancient Egyptians there was no difference between the coffin’s function and its religious importance; they were intertwined. A wooden coffin, with its painted, symbolic, sacred decorations and scenes, was paramount to the devout.
Cod. 176/2002
Year: XXVI-XXX Dinastia, 711-332 a.C.
Dimension: height 110, length 80 cm
Note: Minor color lossses and little fractues, otherwise in perfect condition.
PRICE ON REQUEST
Further information
« Show all items of this section