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The face gilt, with black details of the eyes and markings, wearing turquoise tripartite wig and a broad collar with central lotus flower and falcon-headed terminals. The body with an ankh symbol flanked by uraei wearing the crown of upper and lower Egypt, with seven columns of text over the ankles and feet and a last column over the back pillar.

h. 48.5 cm

Ptolemaic Period, c. 323-30 BC

Wood

Provenance

Albert Eid & Cie, Antiquities, Cairo
Arnold Victor Kunst, acquired from the above, 9th February 1950, Prof Kunst was a scholar of Indian philosophy at SOAS
Thence by descent to the estate Arnold Kunst (1903-1981), London
English private collection, acquired in 1981
Acquired at Bonhams, London, 25th April 2012, lot 122

Publications

Bonhams London, Antiquities, 25th April 2012, p. 78, lot 122
"L'Exposition, Des animaux et des hommes à Mougins", Nice-Matin, 6th March 2016, p. 18

Exhibitions

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from 2012

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Egyptian Polychrome Falcon Sarcophagus

Provenance

Publications

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