LOT 59 Egyptian Funerary Roasting Scene
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12th Dynasty, 1991-1843 B.C. A wooden dioramaprising: a thick rectangular base with gessoed surface; squatting male figure in a white kilt with modelled hair and painted facial details, the hands drilled to accept the handles of tools; a wooden spit with impaled carcass of a roasting fowl in the left hand; a small fan in the right hand; a squat fire-bowl with rounded rim and recess to the upper edge; made for the tomb to apany the deceased and provide for him in the afterlife. Cf. Barker, G., Preparing for Eternity, Oxford, 2022, p.61, ; Taylor, J.H., Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, London, 2001, pp.99-103, for discussion. 743 grams, 30.5 cm long (12 in.). Acquired in the 1960s. From the collection of the late Egyptologist Surgeonmander PHK Gray RN. From a Surrey, UK, collection. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is apanied by AIAD certificate no.11296-192736.
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