AN EGYPTIAN WOOD LID OF A GERMINATING OSIRIS BED, 18TH DYNASTY, PROBABLY PERIOD OF HOREMHAB, 1319-1292 B.C.

Property from a New England Estate
AN EGYPTIAN WOOD LID OF A GERMINATING OSIRIS BED, 18TH DYNASTY, PROBABLY PERIOD OF HOREMHAB, 1319-1292 B.C.

in the form of mummiform Osiris, facing right and wearing a broad beaded collar with long crossed bands in front, braided beard, tripartite wig with faint traces of striped detail, and fragmentary crown in the form of the per-nu, the shrine of Lower Egypt associated with Osiris, the face of Osiris with eyebrows and cosmetic lines painted in traces of black.
Height 65.4 cm.

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Provenance:
Julius Carlebach (1919-1964), Carlebach Gallery, New York

Josefa Carlebach (1901-2000), Carlebach Gallery, Lloyd Harbor, New York (inv. no. 28332)

acquired from the above on June 6th, 1975