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Description : LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXVII, 664-404 B.C. The kneeling figure wearing a belted kilt, his toes splayed, proffering a shrine framed at the top by a winged solar disk over a standing image of the mummified Osiris within, the integral base rounded in front, the hieroglyphic inscription on the shrine reading, A royal offering of Osiris, giving an invocation-offering, giving a good burial (to) Pkharu, son of Pediese, the inscription on the base reading, A royal offering of Osiris, the great god, first of the west, giving an invocation-offering, giving everything that comes from the offering table, a good burial, giving long life, giving a good burial after old age (to) Pkharu, son of Pediese, the inscription on the back pillar reading, A royal offering of Osiris, the great god, giving an invocation-offering (to) the scribe of the king's ka, Pkharu, son of Pediese, born of the mistress of the house Ta-Sheri-Bes 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm.) high
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About the lot N° 368
Title : An Egyptian Brown Schist Naophoros
Provenance : Cairo Museum (coll. no. 1276).Vincent Diniacopoulos, Canada, 1920.Canadian Private Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 5 June 1999, lot 321.
Literature : L. Borchardt, Statuen und Statuetten von Königen und Privatleuten. Catalogue Général des Antiquités Égyptiennes du Musée du Caire, IV, Berlin, 1934, p. 140.
Notes : Compare the naophoroi of Pa-Wen-Hatef in Brooklyn/Paris and Djed-Djehuty-Iuf-Ankh in Seattle, nos. 57A-B and 58, pp. 67-70, in Bothmer, et al., Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, 700 B.C. to A.D. 100.
Christie's, auctioneer, New York, US It's free to register now to view!
Sale title : Antiquities
Sale date : 10 Dec 2004 It's free to register now to view!
Sale Reference : Live Sale

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