EGYPTIAN BEAD PANEL WITH FOUR SONS OF HORUS AND WINGED SCARAB PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 332-30 B.C. 4 7/8 in. (46 grams, 12.5 cm high). Restrung as an openwork panel with a winged scarab above and the four sons of Horus below as two opposing pairs. PROVENANCE: Previously on French art market in the 1990s. Ex London, UK, collection. LITERATURE: Cf. Manley, B., and Dodson, A., Life Everlasting. National Museum of Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins, Edinburgh, 2010, p.114, no.43, for a bead-work shroud incorporating a winged scarab and Four Sons of Horus. FOOTNOTES: The Four Sons of Horus were deities responsible for protecting the internal organs of the deceased. The human-headed Imsety protected the liver, the baboon-headed Hapy protected the lungs, the jackal-headed Duamutef protected the stomach, and the falcon-headed Qebehsenuef protected the intestines. CONDITION
EGYPTIAN BEAD PANEL WITH FOUR SONS OF HORUS AND WINGED SCARAB PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 332-30 B.C. 4 7/8 in. (46 grams, 12.5 cm high). Restrung as an openwork panel with a winged scarab above and the four sons of Horus below as two opposing pairs. PROVENANCE: Previously on French art market in the 1990s. Ex London, UK, collection. LITERATURE: Cf. Manley, B., and Dodson, A., Life Everlasting. National Museum of Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins, Edinburgh, 2010, p.114, no.43, for a bead-work shroud incorporating a winged scarab and Four Sons of Horus. FOOTNOTES: The Four Sons of Horus were deities responsible for protecting the internal organs of the deceased. The human-headed Imsety protected the liver, the baboon-headed Hapy protected the lungs, the jackal-headed Duamutef protected the stomach, and the falcon-headed Qebehsenuef protected the intestines. CONDITION
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