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ЛОТ 458:
Egyptian Bead Panel with Four Sons of Horus and Winged Scarab
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Egyptian Bead Panel with Four Sons of Horus and Winged Scarab
Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 B.C. Restrung as an openwork panel with a winged scarab above and the four sons of Horus below as two opposing pairs. 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. 46 grams, 12.5 cm high (4 7/8 in.).
Previously on French art market in the 1990s.Ex London, UK, collection.
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.

