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Deaccessioned from the Mougins Museum, Christies NY. Wood and gesso anthropoid coffin with elaborate polychrome painted decoration including scenes of funerary rituals Egyptian

h. 182.5 x w. 55 x d. 67 cm

Early Dynasty XXII, dated into the reigns of either Pharaoh Sheshonq I or Pharaoh Orsokon I

Wood and gesso

Provenance

Olof Arrhenius, thence by descent, Stockolm, Sweden, acquired in 1920's, Olof Arrhenius was a chemist and son of Svante August Arrhenius, a Nobel Laureate and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Sotheby's Antiquities Sale, The property of Olof Arrhenius, Esq., London, 9th July 1984, lot 189
Ex Trammell Crow Collection, Dallas, Texas, 1984-2007
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, 13th October 2007
Acquired from the aboveby Safani Gallery Inc., New York
Owned in partnership by Safani Gallery Inc. & Ward & Company, Works of Art LLC, New York, 2007-2009
Acquired at Ward & Company, New York, 2009

Publications

Sotheby's, Antiquities Sale, 9th July 1984, lot 189
Heritage Auctions, 13th October 2007, lot 33557
Ward & Company Works of Art LLC. & Alan Safani Inc., 2009
Antike Welt, April 2011, p. 4
Ancient Warfare, 2013, vol. VI, issue 5, p. 8
P. Clayton, "Ancient Egypt" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, 2011, pp. 33, 34, 39 and 40
in M. Merrony (ed.), Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins. La Collection Famille Levett, 2012, p. 27
La Marche de l'Histoire, February 2013, no. 4, p. 18
C. de Araújo Duarte, "The Amduat on the 21st Dynasty coffins", Proceedings First vatican Coffin conference, Edizioni Musei Vaticani, 22nd June 2013, p. 63
C. de Araújo Duarte, "Crossing the Landscapes of Eternity: Parallels Between Amduat and Funeral Procession Scenes on the 21st Dynasty Coffins" in R. Sousa (ed.), Archeopress, Egyptology 3, 2014, pp. 81-89, fig. 5
C. de Araújo Duarte, "Scenes from the Amduat on the funerary coffins and sarcophagi of the 21st Dynasty", International Congress of Egyptologists XI, Florence, 2015-08-13/30, pp. 4-5

Exhibitions

Ägyptologisches Institut Universität Heidelberg, Heildelberg, Germany, 1980-1984
San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas, USA, 1990-2001
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, 2011-2019

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The Arrhenius Sarcophagus

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