Beschreibung:

AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD COFFIN FOR HENES-HEPET-EN-AMUN
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD TO EARLY LATE PERIOD, 21ST-26TH DYNASTY, 1070-525 B.C.
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD COFFIN FOR HENES-HEPET-EN-AMUN THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD TO EARLY LATE PERIOD, 21ST-26TH DYNASTY, 1070-525 B.C. Gessoed and brightly painted, comprised of an anthropoid lid and trough, on a rectangular integral plinth, the deceased wearing a striped tripartite headcloth centered by a scarab, with triangles along its edges, his face with large black irises within elongated eyes, with extended cosmetic lines and conforming brows, adorned with an elaborate, multi-strand, beaded broad collar, with falcon-head terminals, a winged scarab at his chest, the body with the Four Sons of Horus facing inward, flanking a column of hieroglyphs, reading: "A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris Foremost of the West, Great God, Lord of Abydos, that he may give Invocation-Offerings of beer, oxen and fowl, offerings;" two columns of hieroglyphs on the reverse, the right column, reading: "Recitation by Osiris, Foremost of the West, Great God, Lord of Abydos, that he may give Invocation-Offerings of beer, oxen and fowl, offerings and food, incense and oil, clothing (and alabaster?), and every good, pure thing, for the Ka of the Osiris Henes-hepet-en-Amun, son of Nayu-tja-en(?);" the left column reading: "A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris, Foremost of , Lord of Abydos, that he may give Invocation-Offerings of beer, oxen and fowl, offerings and food, incense and oil, clothing (and alabaster?), and every good, pure thing the Ka of the Osiris Henes-hepet-en-Amun, son of Nau-tjau(?);" and a band running along the base, the front with a mirror-image text, reading out from the center: "A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris, Foremost;" the right side, reading: "that he may give Invocation-Offerings of beer, oxen and fowl, offerings;" and the left side, reading: "Invocation-Offerings of oxen and fowl, offerings and food;" and the back, reading: "A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris, Foremost of the West, Great God, Lord" 64 in. (162.6 cm.) high