FRAGMENT OF THE SARCOPHAGUS LID OF THE ROYAL SCRIBE PADIHORPAKHERED, WHICH SHOWS THE TRANSSHIPMENT OF THE SUN-DISK FROM THE NIGHT BARK TO THE DAY BARK
EGYPT, PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 4TH-3RD CENTURY BC
INDURATED LIMESTONE
25 X 26,5 X 20,5 CM
Provenance: Private Collection, Switzerland, 1960’s
A fragment of the same sarcophagus lid, with glass paste inlays, is kept in the Louvre (AF 9897).
The tomb of Ramesses VI in the Valley of the Kings preserves an almost identical scene: a vignette from the first hour of the Book of the Day: Piankoff, A.-Rambova, N., The Tomb of Ramesses VI. Texts (Bollingen Series XL,1), New York, 1954, fig. 130