Egyptian Gilt Wood Polychrome Horus Falcon Grain Sarcophagus
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Egyptian Gilt Wood Polychrome Horus Falcon Grain Sarcophagus
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Egyptian Gilt Wood Polychrome Horus Falcon Grain Sarcophagus

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 Ptolemaic Period Circa 332 to 30 BCE

This falcon-headed coffin does not contain an actual mummy but a symbolic Osiris mummy. Although appearing to be a mummified animal, the image of the deity is composed rather of clay and grain wrapped in linen. The falcon head on the coffin and the hieroglyphic text on the painted lid indicate it is associated with the funerary deity Ptah-Sokar-Osiris. Inscription nmya start with “ Words spoken by the Osiris ...
 
Such coffins and 'mummies' were prepared and buried in annual rites at certain centers as part of the mysteries of Osiris. Subsequent germination of the grain would symbolize the possibility of new life offered by Osiris.

This particular example is of a type associated with the site of Tuna el-Gebel.

Provenance:  with copies of appraisal dated December 3, 1983 by Witherspoon & Postlethwaite, San Anselmo, California; and another dated September 20, 1974 by T.E. McCormick 1044 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, Kentfield, California

Measurements  Overall: 19 by 6 by 5 1/2 inches.

Good condition, lid and base fitting and mummy intact inside. 

 

 

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