EGYPTIAN FRESCO WITH OFFERING SCENE
Description: An al fresco mural painting from a hypogeum or tomb in the period known as the Middle Kingdom. The fragment would have been part of one of the motifs most frequently represented, showing people carrying offerings for the deceased. Specifically, a male carrying an offering is the central motif. His body is painted in dark reddish tones, and the figure is depicted following the canon of Egyptian representation: the head in profile, the body facing to the front and the left leg advanced as if the figure were walking forward. The man has a short compact wig and wears nothing more than a white kilt. He holds a bird by its wings in his hands, most probably a goose or a duck. Feet can be seen just above him that would have belonged to another person in an upper register, delimited by a horizontal black line, similarly making an offering. It was a common practice to distribute figures in horizontal registers, occupying all the vertical spaces on the walls of the tombs. These carriers of offerings walked towards the image of the owner of the tomb (depicted on a larger scale) to bring these supplies to the deceased. At the same time, bits of text could be interspersed. In this case we can find two painted hieroglyphs, which read from above to below and from right to left. They represent the beginning of a prayer which would refer to the owner of the tomb. It includes French Passport. | Egypt. Middle Kingdom, Dynasty XI - XII, 2050 - 1750 BC
Condition: In a good general state of preservation. Some chips at the sides of the fresco and some restoration to the polychrome colouring in the area of the mouth of the figure. Notes: The piece includes authenticity certificate. For reasons of data protection, when the provenance of the pieces is private collections, only the initials of the particular collectors are shown, the complete information of these collections will be delivered to the buyer in the authenticity certificate. |The piece includes Spanish Export License ( Passport for European Union) - If the piece is destined outside the European Union a substitution of the export permit should be requested and an export fee must be paid ( see terms and conditions ). This process could take between 1 and 2 months.
Provenance: Private collection O. A., France. Dimensions: 36,00 cm.
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Description: An al fresco mural painting from a hypogeum or tomb in the period known as the Middle Kingdom. The fragment would have been part of one of the motifs most frequently represented, showing people carrying offerings for the deceased. Specifically, a male carrying an offering is the central motif. His body is painted in dark reddish tones, and the figure is depicted following the canon of Egyptian representation: the head in profile, the body facing to the front and the left leg advanced as if the figure were walking forward. The man has a short compact wig and wears nothing more than a white kilt. He holds a bird by its wings in his hands, most probably a goose or a duck. Feet can be seen just above him that would have belonged to another person in an upper register, delimited by a horizontal black line, similarly making an offering. It was a common practice to distribute figures in horizontal registers, occupying all the vertical spaces on the walls of the tombs. These carriers of offerings walked towards the image of the owner of the tomb (depicted on a larger scale) to bring these supplies to the deceased. At the same time, bits of text could be interspersed. In this case we can find two painted hieroglyphs, which read from above to below and from right to left. They represent the beginning of a prayer which would refer to the owner of the tomb. It includes French Passport. | Egypt. Middle Kingdom, Dynasty XI - XII, 2050 - 1750 BC
Condition: In a good general state of preservation. Some chips at the sides of the fresco and some restoration to the polychrome colouring in the area of the mouth of the figure. Notes: The piece includes authenticity certificate. For reasons of data protection, when the provenance of the pieces is private collections, only the initials of the particular collectors are shown, the complete information of these collections will be delivered to the buyer in the authenticity certificate. |The piece includes Spanish Export License ( Passport for European Union) - If the piece is destined outside the European Union a substitution of the export permit should be requested and an export fee must be paid ( see terms and conditions ). This process could take between 1 and 2 months.
Provenance: Private collection O. A., France. Dimensions: 36,00 cm.
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