Pair of Egyptian Gesso-Painted Wood Panels Pair of Egyptian Gesso-Painted Wood Panels Pair of Egyptian Gesso-Painted Wood Panels Pair of Egyptian Gesso-Painted Wood Panels Pair of Egyptian Gesso-Painted Wood Panels
Pair of Egyptian Gesso-Painted Wood Panels
Pair of Egyptian Gesso-Painted Wood Panels
Pair of Egyptian Gesso-Painted Wood Panels
Pair of Egyptian Gesso-Painted Wood Panels
Pair of Egyptian Gesso-Painted Wood Panels

Pair of Egyptian Gesso-Painted Wood Panels

SKU: MS.0075

Origin: Egypt
Circa: Late Period to Ptolemaic, 664 BC - 30 BC
Dimensions: 6.75" Height x 33" (34") Length x 1.5" Depth, 8" Height x 34.25" Width with frame
Medium: Painted Wood

This exquisite and fascinating pair of gesso-painted wooden panels comes mounted within custom wooden frames.  Both panels are of roughly similar sizes, horizontal in nature, and likely come from the sides of a wooden sarcophagus. Highly decorated with alternating blue-green djed pillars, light tyt-knots, and set against a red background, and between two lighter horizontal bands above and below. 

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Michael Rice (1928-2013) collection, UK, acquired prior to 1983

Fine Condition with paint chips, superficial cracks, losses, and surface wear throughout.

Due to their size and shape it is likely these fragments were originally part of a rectangular sarcophagus. These types of sarcophagi took on the form of Osiris' tomb, with the motifs of the djed-pillar and tyt-knot conform to as well. The djed-pillar is generally associated with death and rebirth through its representation of Osiris' backbone, while the tyt-knot relates to the goddess Isis and her ability to protect the body in its journey into the afterlife.

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Late Dynastic

Pair of Egyptian Gesso-Painted Wood Panels

Late Dynastic

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