Late Period, 30th Dynasty, 380-343 BC. Aplete wooden gesso-painted sarcophag of female form hoed in a ctom-built Edwardian glazed wooden display case, depicting the deceased wearing a tripartite wig with long lappets, fleshy face with painted detailing, wide Broad Collar with falcon-headed terminals, each wearing a sun disk, a staff with shuti symbol to each side of the collar, a figure of Sobek beneath the staff; beneath the collar kneeling Nut with her wings spread, wearing the solar disk and holding a feather in each hand, Wedjat-eye standards on either side of the goddess; the leg area of Tetosiris coffin organised as a text apron of five columns with a formula of offering and the genealogy of the deceased, protected on both sides by the Four Sons of Hor, reading: 1. Words spoken by Osiris, foremost of the westerners, good god, lord of Rosetau 2. Isis the great, mother of the god, who resides in Akhmim and Nephtys, sister of the god. That they might give 3. an offering consisting of bread and beer, oxen and fowl, wine, milk, incense, cloth and all things 4. good and pure to the ka of the Osiris Tetosiris 5. daughter of Tutu, born of Lady Tasheritmin the sarcophag resting on a rectangular base with a band of hieroglyphs, reading: front: 'A boon which the king gives to Osiris, foremost of the westerners, lord of [...]' left: 'Rosetau Osiris (?) make perfect (?) (?) [… ...]' right: 'Tetosiris, daughter of Tutu [… … ...]'. See Abdelhalim, A., The Stela of Nes-Hor from Akhmim CG 22142, Shedet 6 (2019); Elias, J., Examination of the Three Egyptian Coffins in the Buffalo Meum of Scienze, Ahmim Mummy Studies Research Paper 96-1 (1996, revised 2012); Tamas, M., Takwa, S., Kholoud, A., The Ensemble of Djed-Hor (Coffin, Cartonnage and Hypocephal) in the Egyptian Meum of Cairo, RdE 62, 2011; Rindi Nuzzolo Carlo, 'Tradition and Transformation: retracing Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figures from Akhmim in Meums and Private Collections' in Todd Gillen (ed.), (Re)productive Traditions in Ancient Egypt (=Aegyptiaca Leodiensia), Liège, 2017. 137cm high; 175.5cm including case (54 (69)"). By repute discovered in the necropolis of Akin. Victorian or Edwardian collection, based on the ctom-built display case. Acquired in The Hague, Holland, 1961. With Christie’s, London, 7 November 2001, lot 394. Apanied by copies of the relevant Christie's catalogue pages and a copy of the Christie's purchase . Private collection of Egyptologist Paul Whelan, Hertfordshire, UK. Apanied by an academic report by Dr Alberto Maria Pollastrini. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is apanied by AIAD certificate number no.11034-182413. [A video of this lot is available to view on Timeline Auctions .]