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LOT 0531
Egyptian Cartonnage Section with Eye and Wing
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1069-860 B.C.
6 3/4 in. (48 grams, 17 cm).
Sub-rectangular in plan with irregular and fragmented edge; prepared plaster surface featuring a line-bordered column with four cursive hieroglyphs naming Behedet (bḥdt); a section of finely painted outstretched wing with feather detailing to lower edge in red and blue; below, a wedjat eye in black with red medial band; fabric back to reverse.
Provenance
Formerly from an old collection of a Wiltshire, UK, collector, acquired before 1980.
Property of a private collector, West London, UK.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Literature
Cf. Sousa, R., "Yellow" Coffins from Thebes, BAR 3010, Oxford, 2020, p. 27, for the coffin of Heritubekhet with a similar feather design and colouring.
Footnotes
This fragment most likely originates from the lower chest section of a so-called anthropoid 'yellow coffin' from the Third Intermediate Period. The wing belongs to a protective deity; as Behedet is a name given to several locations (Edfu, Tell el-Balamun, and Lepidotonpolis) associated with Horus, it seems probable that the wing belongs to the falcon form of this god.
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