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Lot 189*

An Egyptian glazed composition beaded shroud fragment

28 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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An Egyptian glazed composition beaded shroud fragment
Ptolemaic Period, circa 323-30 B.C.
From the central area of a shroud showing a crouched jackal, Anubis, above the beginning of the standard funerary text asking the god Osiris, with the epithet 'good god', to grant a goodly burial in the necropolis, the name of the deceased no longer extant, 38cm high

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Provenance:
with Mitsukoshi Department Store, Tokyo, 1974 (Kokusai Bijutsu: Second International Art Exhibition, no. 17).

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