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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Egyptian sarcophagus panel fragment with hieroglyphs, Late Dynastic-Ptolemaic Period, c.400-30 BC
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Egyptian sarcophagus panel fragment with hieroglyphs, Late Dynastic-Ptolemaic Period, c.400-30 BC
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Egyptian sarcophagus panel fragment with hieroglyphs, Late Dynastic-Ptolemaic Period, c.400-30 BC
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Egyptian sarcophagus panel fragment with hieroglyphs, Late Dynastic-Ptolemaic Period, c.400-30 BC
Egyptian sarcophagus panel fragment with hieroglyphs, Late Dynastic-Ptolemaic Period, c.400-30 BC
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Dimensions: 35 x 37.5cm
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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1) Egyptian sarcophagus panel fragment with hieroglyphs, Late Dynastic-Ptolemaic Period, c.400-30 BC
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2) Egyptian sarcophagus panel fragment with hieroglyphs, Late Dynastic-Ptolemaic Period, c.400-30 BC
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Sarcophagus panel for the sistrum player of Amen-Re Kary. The decoration on the panel is painted in blue and reddish brown within black outlines. One horizontal line and seven vertical...
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Sarcophagus panel for the sistrum player of Amen-Re Kary.
The decoration on the panel is painted in blue and reddish
brown within black outlines. One horizontal line and seven
vertical columns of hieroglyphic inscription containing
recitations of Horus on behalf of the deceased, named as the
sistrum player of Amen-Re Kary. The text reads ‘Gwr-iry,
Chantress of Amun-ra’. The horizontal inscription is set within
borders of black, blue and red-brown rectangles, alternating
with the natural wood, the vertical columns banded by lines
of alternating red-brown and blue. Areas of loss to the surface
made good with stucco prior to the inscription being written.
The surface has areas of wear and abrasions, there is one
horizontal break across the middle and a few areas of infill.
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Provenance

Private collection, Scotland, UK; sold at the below sale

Christie's, London, UK, Fine Antiquities, 13th December 1983

Charles Pankow (1923-2004), San Francisco, USA

His Sale; Sotheby's, New York, USA, The Charles Pankow Collection of Egyptian Antiquities, 8th December 2004
Robert Kime, London, UK; acquired 8th December 2004

Publications

Christie's, London, UK, Fine Antiquities, 13th December 1983, lot 112
Sotheby's, New York, USA, The Charles Pankow Collection of Egyptian Antiquities, 8th December 2004, lot 145
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