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LOT 0477
Egyptian Canopic Chest Fragment with Cobras
LATE PERIOD-PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.
10 5/8 in. (176 grams, 27 cm).
Rectangular panel bearing a frieze depicting a series of rearing cobras wearing sun-disc headdresses. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx E.B.W. Chappelow collection, January 1958.
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
Accompanied by an old handwritten information card by Peter Clayton, collection no.10.
Reisner, G.A., Canopics - Catalogue Général des Antiquités Égyptiennes du Musée du Caire (Nos. 4001–4740 and 4977–5033), Cairo, 1967, pl. LXXXIII, no. 4739, for a comparable cobra frieze on an intact canopic chest.
FootnotesFriezes of rearing cobras at the top of canopic chests served as guardian figures, protecting the visceral containers within. Arguably, the most famous canopic chest, decorated with a frieze of rearing cobras, is the gilded one of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
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LOT 0477
Egyptian Canopic Chest Fragment with Cobras
Estimate £400 - 600€460 - 700 (for guidance only)$540 - 810 (for guidance only)
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