Date : near 200 B.C.
Material : Limestone
Acquisition : Gift of the Marquess of Northampton (1852)
Dynastie Ptolémaïque
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Ancient Egypt
Sculpture (Cercueil)
Area related
Egypte
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Beneath the broad collar hangs a pectoral containing seated figures of Osiris, Isis and Horus. The Four Sons of Horus and other funerary deities flank the central text which names the deities represented and contains a formula concerning the deceased's acceptance in the Other World after death.
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