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The Upper Part of an Egyptian Polychrome Wood Coffin Lid, 26th Dynasty/early Ptolemaic Period, circa 664-200 B.C.

Lot Closed

July 5, 12:50 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

The Upper Part of an Egyptian Polychrome Wood Coffin Lid

26th Dynasty/early Ptolemaic Period, circa 664-200 B.C.


painted on the breast with a kneeling figure of the winged sky goddess Nut, and wearing an elaborate broad collar and striped tripartite wig, the broad face with small finely -shaped mouth and large almond-shaped eyes.

Height 90 cm.

California private collection, acquired in the early 1960s