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Descubra la tasación y los precios de esta y más obras de arte africano en Africartmarket. Egyptian Painted Wood Stela Of Tsentwot



Descripción : PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 304-30 B.C. Painted in white, red, yellow, green blue and black on a tan ground, in four registers, the uppermost lunette-shaped, with a winged solar disk above a scarab beetle flanked by a pair of crowned uraei, Nekhbet and Wadjet, and a pair of recumbent jackals, Anubis and Wepwawet, each identified by accompanying inscriptions, the second register with the deceased, Tsentwot, kneeling to the left with her hands raised in adoration before a divine boat, Tsentwot wearing a full wig surmounted by a lotus bud and a long pleated gown, a column of hieroglyphic text before her reading, Praising the gods, a human-headed Ba-bird perched behind her, the boat carrying a full complement of deities including Khepre in the form of a scarab, ibis-headed Thoth, two goddesses, falcon-headed Horakhty holding a serpent aloft, two male gods, and falcon-headed Horus, the third register with Tsentwot standing to the right with her arms raised in adoration before a seated mummiform Osiris, a column of hieroglyphic text before her reading, The Osiris Tasheritenduau(?), justified, with four deities standing behind Osiris, including falcon-headed Horus, Isis, Nephthys and jackal-headed Anubis, each identified by accompanying inscriptions, the lower register with six horizontal bands, alternating green and tan, each with hieroglyphic text reading, A decree made by the Majesty of the King of Upper and Lower Egypt Wenen-nefer (Osiris), Justified: O ye gods...of the fertile land of the realm of the dead, ye spirits in..., ye followers who sleep(?) at the side of...the kingdom of the dead(?), gods and goddesses of the(?) horizon, heavenly ones who are buried(?) upon(?)...a divine decree. He says: O all ye gods,...ye the voice, Amen-Re, Lord of the Throne(s) of the Two Lands, Foremost in Karnak, Atum, Lord of the Two Lands, the Heliopolitan, Ptah, South of His Wall, Lord of Ankhtawy, Nun, Eldest of the Gods in the First Occasion(?), Osiris...Tasheritduai(?), justified, borne by the Lady of the House, the Musician of Amen-Re, Tasherit, justified, that she may enter to you. Come ye(?) to the chamber...It is the secret chamber of the of All, sacred of ways in the West, like Re, come,...adoration to her face(?), come ye!, the registers divided and framed by a khekher frieze, the outer edge in red 21 in. (53.3 cm.) high
Precio: 36 000.00 USD 🔓Sin tarjeta de crédito.
Estimación (baja/alta) : 30000 USD-50000 USD 🔓Sin tarjeta de crédito.

Sobre el lote Lote N° 41
Título : Egyptian Painted Wood Stela Of Tsentwot
Procedencia : Pitt-Rivers Collection.Mrs. S. Pitt-Rivers, from the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Dorset, Sotheby's, London, 14 July 1975, lot 118.with Gallery Faustus, London, 1976.
Literature : L.H. Dudley Buxton, The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham, General Handbook, Dorset, 1929, pl. xix.Harer Collection Highlights Egyptian Culture, in Minerva, vol. 3, no. 1, January/February 1992, p. 34.G.D. Scott, III, Exhibition catalogue, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, San Bernardino, 1992, no. 146, pp. 197 and 199.D.C. Forbes, Harer Collection of Egyptian Antiquities on View at California's Newest Museum, in KMT, vol. 8, no. 1, Spring 1997, p. 24.
Christie's, subastador, New York, US 🔓Sin tarjeta de crédito.
Título de venta : Ancient Egyptian Art from the Harer Family Trust Collection
Fecha de la venta : 09/12/2005 🔓Sin tarjeta de crédito.
Referencia de la subasta : Live Sale

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