Sold for $30,000

Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

Lot Description

An Egyptian Wood Falcon Sarcophagus

Late Period, Dynasty 26-30, 664-343 B.C.
Height 23 inches.

Property from the Estate of Julia Reich, East Orange, New Jersey

Provenance:
Kamel Abdallah Hammouda, Cairo, 1966 (with a related letter)

Condition Report

Chips and small paint losses with exposed gesso on the proper left side, the top and the back. Crack through the lower part of the proper right side, with some insignificant wood losses at the seam. Yellow color probably re-touched on the back. The interior filled with corn husk which is disintegrating and shedding dust/fragments when the sarcophagus is moved.

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