Property from a Private Collection, Brussels
An Egyptian Polychrome Wood Panel, 25th/26th Dynasty, 750-525 B.C.
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Property from a Private Collection, Brussels
An Egyptian Polychrome Wood Panel
25th/26th Dynasty, 750-525 B.C.
from the inside of a sarcophagus lid, finely painted with a figure of Imentet, Goddess of the West, facing right with her arms held by her sides, and wearing a long beaded dress, beaded anklets and armlets, broad collar, and tripartite wig with diadem, her high crown surmounted by the Horus Falcon and the ostrich plume of Maat, the elegantly dr🉐awn face with large eye with long eyebrow and cosmetic lines.
178 by 35 cm.
acquired from the above on September 14th, 1978
For an image very close in date of the Goddess of the West, painted in the second coffin of the lady Nes-mut-aat-neru in Boston, see S. D’Auria, P. Lacovara, C.H. Roehrig, Mummies and Magic, The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, Boston , 1988, cat. 125b.
Also see the coffin base dated to the early Ptolemaic ✅Period in the Albany Institute of History and Art, 1909.18.2b.
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