Description:

Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, Twenty-First to Twenty-Fifth Dynasties, ca. 1070 to 712 BCE. A cartonnage panel of openwork form, with a rectangular border and a thick strip vertically through the center, connected to the upper and lower borders. These are painted with pastels surrounded by thin black outlines. Yellow outlines the edges of the border, and the rest of the border is filled in with blue, red, and darker blue triangles against a white field. The vertical strip is divided into a thick red panel and a thick blue panel; these are separated by the same style of yellow outline. The red and blue panels are covered in rows of hieroglyphs and accompanied by a hand-written translation. Size: 5.75" W x 7.9" H (14.6 cm x 20.1 cm); 9.75" H (24.8 cm) on included custom stand.

Cartonnage was linen or papyrus covered with plaster, used to form the crucial written spells that would protect a mummy on its journey into the Underworld. This example gives an offering through Osiris and the Goddess of the Western Lands, mentioning the city of Abydos.

Provenance: private New York, USA collection; ex Lester Gross collection, New York, USA, acquired in the 1980s

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  • Condition: Losses as shown to upper portion and one corner. Pigment is nicely preserved, with very light encrustation on surface.

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