An Egyptian polychrome painted lidded model box
Middle Kingdom-New Kingdom, circa 2046-1069 B.C.
Made in six separate parts, with a band of hieroglyphic funerary text running around all four sides reading 'A gift which the King gives to Osiris...', followed by the god's usual epithets asking for funerary offerings for a woman, with remains of red, yellow and black paint and white slip, 27.5cm long, 10.3cm high, 14.5cm deep注脚Provenance:
Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired in the 1970s.

The same offering text is evident from stick shabtis from the Second Intermediate Period.