An Egyptian painted wood anthropoid coffin for Nes-Aset
New Kingdom, Ramesside-Third Intermediate Period, 20th Dynasty-21st Dynasty, circa 1186-945 B.C.
Wearing a tripartite striped wig with rosette earplugs, and an elaborate broad funerary collar with falcon-headed terminals and floral breast-covers, the arms crossed, a kneeling figure of the sky goddess below with outstretched wings, a central column ending in text, panels on either side with scenes of the deceased, a chantress of Isis named Nes-Aset, daughter of Ta-Isw, pouring water for Osiris and the canopic deities, the sides with scenes depicting the deceased, wearing a tight-fitting garment with a long red sash, her tripartite wig bound by a fillet, once accompanied by a sem priest clad in panther-skin, pouring water before various funerary deities, including Osiris as a personified djed-pillar and the hippopotamus goddess Taweret, overall with considerable restoration and overpainting, 183cm high注脚Provenance:
Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired in London in the 1970s.