Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/526
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    592/748 (page 82)
    fl thn SD zs 638 <A Pillow, of stuffed leather, in the form of a crescent-shaped cushion, . decorated with three Coptic crosses cut t h the leather and showing the Tien Regine PY in on Coo h tos onal collec- tion of ancient Egyptian Baskets of various forms, made of plaited palm fibre ; a Cap, the lower part of which is made of basket work, the upper part of finely plaited palm-fibre, and two palm-leaf Sandals ; the spectmen with the largest plaiting found at Sedment fap el Gebel, the smallest (oblong) basket found at Thebes; the basket with cover contains fragments of mummy wrapping and other textile fabric , Torn . 13 . ~S # oa ; B Wir C639) Three mummied Hawks in wrappings; a Horn made from a cow’ _ 4 eT 6 WSS ne a horn, with two strap ‘rings cut round the mouthpiece end ; and young Crocodile without bandage 5 “ ( 640) Five mummied Animals, comprising a Hawk, a young Jackal, and be three Snakes in bandages; also three Bones from mummified animals, a bronze Probe, and.three bronze Needles 12 PAPYRI, MUMMY LABELS, &c. 642 Four Mummy Labels, in wood, two inscribed in Demotic and two oO ‘s in Greek 4 643) Three others, inscribed in Greek; and a Fragment of a mood 337 SD ‘iil Tablet, inscribed in Coptic, with original string for hanging 644\ Three others, one with five lines of well preserved Demotic on the 4 of obverse and two lines of Greek on the reverse ; another, showing jackals and a partly defaced inscription {37 15) A Fragment of inscribed Linen, in gilt frame, with representation . —————= of the goddess Anthat on a lion, which is walking over lotus. Sc SLA flowers ; above the goddess is the winged disk and the two utchats ; the six lines of hieroglyphic inscription mention Isis, Amen Ra, Min, and the company of the great gods; Antha was a Syrian deity introduced into Egypt probably about the 18th Dynasty, 1400 B.c.; also a wooden Panel covered with stucco, with figure of a kneeling king offering incense above a cartouche, inscribed, probably the lid of a box or door of a small shrine, Late; and a «| Pig’s Blade-bone, inscribed on the reverse 3