AN EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME AND GILT ANTHROPOID INNER COFFIN OF THE SISTRUM-PLAYER TA-GEM-EN-HOR, MACEDONIAN/EARLY PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 332-290 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME AND GILT ANTHROPOID INNER COFFIN OF THE SISTRUM-PLAYER TA-GEM-EN-HOR, MACEDONIAN/EARLY PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 332-290 B.C.

wearing a lower broad beaded collar with Horus-head terminals, broad upper collar of simple bands covering the neck , and long tripartite wig, her finely carved and gilded face with full outlined lips rounded at the corners, and long black eyebrows and cosmetic lines, the three columns of inscription in the frontal panel translating : Words spoken by the sistrum-player of Min, Ta-gem-en-Hor, true-of-voice, daughter of the stolist-priest and 3rd prophet of Min, P[a]-senedjem-ib-nasht, and born of the sistrum-player of Min, Nehem-sy-Bast ,true-of-voice. Made is the good burial on the west of Akhmim”.
Height 192 cm.

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Provenance:
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Antiquités égyptiennes, grecques et romaines appartenant à P. Philip et à divers amateurs: sculptures, peintures, bronzes, étoffes, faiences, figures de Tanagra, verres irisés, April 10th/12th, 1905, no. 8, illus. (in the same sale lot 7 is the wood sarcophagus in which the present inner coffin was originally placed)

Maria Segers, Hoboken, Antwerp, Belgium, acquired on the art market in The Hague in 1964