Description: Large wooden sculpture of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris for the Osiris Musician Priestess of Min, Daughter of Ta-Sherit-Min, Egypt, Ptolemaic period, ca. 200 B.C., 79,5 cm high // The black painted mummy-shaped figure wears a crown-like headdress, Atef crown, equipped with the ram horns, a dark red sun disk and coloured feathers, which are bumped, burst and repaired in some places. The body, whose painting shows signs of weathering and cracks in various places, still wears, in faded condition, the breast ornament and the inscription of the owner. The figure stands at the end of a rectangular plinth (38,8 x 10,5 x 5,5 cm), which is a sarcophagus. It is inscribed with hieroglyphics all around. At the other end of the plinth there is a cavity in the shape of a coffin, which is covered with a wooden Horus-Falcon figure. A piece of the mummy was originally kept there. According to an attached old note, the figure probably comes from the necropolis of Akhim, which was never excavated scientifically because it was plundered by grave robbers between 1880 and 1890. Provenance: 1994: Rhéa Gallery, Zurich; Private Collection Zurich.