Lot 82
  • 82

A Banded Alabaster Canopic Jar, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C.

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • A Banded Alabaster Canopic Jar
  • Height 15 7/8 in. 40.3 cm.
of ovoid form with six columns of inscription in sunk relief, the lid (sealed onto the vessel) representing Imsety, Son of Horus and guardian of the liver, wearing a beard with curled tip and broad wig passing behind the ears, his face with full lips deeply rounded at the corners, broad nose, and long eyebrows in faint relief.

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, December 14th-15th, 1981, no. 127, illus.
Sotheby's, London, July 17th-18th, 1985, no. 155, illus.