Parts of an Egyptian wooden sarcophagus from the... Lot 37

Parts of an Egyptian wooden sarcophagus from the Greco-Roman period, Memphite, -1st cartonnage: decoration in registers showing a God with a hawk's head, and his paws placed on a chapel, and on the lower register, an ointment vase, two rods and a cistre of the Athor deese -2nd cartonnage: in the upper left register, decoration of a falcon and a headless scorpion (symbol of the goddess Selkis), and underneath a decoration of the West (the kingdom of the dead), and again underneath, the nebride, a pot with a beast skin, symbol of Osiris associated with the cult of Bacchus. The inscription on the right register gives the name Haty-a (prince), the mistress of heaven, Horus with the mastership of Upper Egypt, justified to the God Uty, justified to Socar. Goddess Mut mistress of the sky followed by the name Horus from lower Egypt, justified (for the dead) then Jehuti a character prince Haty-a justified justified to the God Socar from Memphis (Would come from the region of Cairo) and on the horizontal register, word called "protection of Izis, then it is broken. - On the fragment of pine wood from Taurus (Turkey), the center register describes a woman praying and below a very abbreviated text, located at Ra Setau Necropolis of Memphis, then on the lower register two mummiform figures, two of the four sons of Horus, the fragment may be a post of the original bed on which the sarcophagus is placed. H. 40& 48 cm and bedpost 40 cm Note: The cartonnage is an envelope that covers the mummy and whose use became widespread in the Late Period. It is made from several layers of agglomerated fabrics (linen), stuccoed and shaped with a mold. It often replaced the wooden sarcophagus. This set can be divided into two groups, on the one hand, two multicolored fragments on which one can see the representation of Horus and, on the other hand, in the middle of the display case, the remains of a board with blackened representations of a much less careful work. In the first group, we find Horus with the solar disk on his head, his wings spread and his talons resting on a chapel. In the lower register, we recognize a sealed ointment jar and probably a blade. On the other piece, we also see Horus with his wings spread, but this time the solar disk is replaced by the goddess Selkis, represented by a headless scorpion linked to the head of the bird by a red ribbon. This representation undoubtedly gives us the geographical origin of the piece: in Edfu theology, Selkis is the wife of Horus and also the lady of the bond, probably in the magical sense of the term. This piece contains the remains of a column and a line of text: "...the prosperity of the goddess Mut, mistress of heaven, (for) Her-Mehou, justified, (son of) Haty-Djouhouty, justified, right with the god Sokar" and "...even, Isis protects him as ... " On the blackened plate, one can see, besides a text that is not very legible, probably taken from the Book of the Dead, a deceased woman with one arm raised in adoration and the other lowered, perhaps holding a cloth, and, in the lower register, two of the four sons of Horus. We thank Mr. Massimo Patanè, Egyptologist, for his enlightened analysis of these fragments.