An Egyptian Polychrome Cartonnage Mummy Wrapping, Late 25th/26th Dynasty, Circa 700-525 B.C.

finely painted in two registers within a richly decorated and inscribed shrine, the upper register with a man, most probably a priest at Hermopolis Magna, kneeling before a sacred ibis, above the scene a winged sun-disk with vulture leg holding an ostrich plume fan and the motto "all life and dominion," a winged scarab holding aloft the sun-disk in the lower register, an inscription accompanying the kneeling figure translating "Venerable ibis who gives life".

James Richard Kurtz, Seattle, Washington, acquired in the mid-1950s, then by descent to the present owner

As shown; much of the painting missing; what remains has damages but has evidently not been retouched or restored. It is extremely fragile, unmounted, and probably needs serious conservation work to display properly.
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