Beschreibung:

AN EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME PAINTED WOOD SARCOPHAGUS
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXI, CIRCA 1069-945 B.C.
AN EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME PAINTED WOOD SARCOPHAGUS THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXI, CIRCA 1069-945 B.C. The base of the interior decorated in four registers, the uppermost with large Isis-knot ( Tit ) flanked by two crouching deities, probably Isis and Nephthys, below a winged sun-disc with two uraei wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt and flanking a scarab, with two confronting reclining jackals holding Shm -scepters, decorative hieroglyphs for the Great God; the main register with seated Osiris on the right, protected by a winged uraeus, holding Heka -scepter and flail, facing a goddess wearing Ba-bird and feather, pouring a libation over an offering table, with two columns of text reading: 'Libations have been poured and offerings have been made by the Lord of the temple, Great God who resides in the Necropolis', the third register with two deities facing a cartouche reading 'Osiris, Lord of the Horizon,' with a falcon and crane perched on Isis-knots, the last register with two standing mummiform deities with wedjat-eyes, sun-disc, uraei and ankh-signs above lotus flower offerings, the interior left side decorated with a funerary snake-headed deity, the two others now missing, below two human and feather-headed deities, the interior right side with, from top to bottom, a kneeling deity holding ankh-sign protected by a large wing, a frieze of uraei surmounting three funerary human and falcon-headed deities and altars, a jackal, snake and human-headed deities and altars, and a human and feather-headed deities; the exterior decorated with offering scenes, seven on the left and six on the right, accompanied with hieroglyphic text 74 in. (188 cm.) long