Showcased by 

PANEL OF A SARCOPHAGUS

Egypt
XXVIth – XXXth Dynasty, 663-300 BC
Height: 103 cm – Width: 47 cm
Gesso painted wood

The goddess Isis / Hathor / Nut, wearing a long tight dress, is shown facing right with her arms bent upwards. She is adorned with a large Userkh collar and holds a folded cloth in each hand. She wears a tripartite wig surmounted by the Hathoric crown, a crown made up of the solar disk between cow horns, placed on a modus.

This fragment is the upper part of the exterior of the coffin which incorporates a dorsal pillar in the form of a Djed pillar, a sign identified with Osiris and stability.

Provenance

Former Private collection Germany, acquired ca. 1980

Publication(s)

O. Koefoed-Petersen: Catalogue des sarcophages et cerceuils egyptines, Copenhague 1951
A. Küffer: Die Bedeutung des Sarges, Suiss Coffin Project 2012
K.M. Cooney: Coffins, Cartonnage, and Sarcophagi, John Wiley & Sons 2015

Exhibition(s)