The lower part of the lid has two columns of inscription. The text is Utterance 368 of the Pyramid Texts, reading: “words spoken by Osiris…. Your (mother) Nut (spreads herself) over you in her name….For you are the greatest of her children. Geb is gracious to you….He has given you your head….He has caused Thoth to reassemble you. . . "


Corn-mummies embody the forces of rebirth under the control of the god Osiris. The process of assembling grain and earth in the form of Osiris symbolizes the cosmic cycle of death and rebirth and its preservation.

The object was once part of the collection of Viscountess Elizabeth Dow Dalton from the early 20th century and was purchased by Georges Ricard for the Senusret Collection on 24 July 1974 from Roger F. Galliano, a member of the Conciliation Commission at Central Customs in Paris, certified expert of the Chamber of Auctioneers of France and Judicial Officer of Geneva.

[See additional images below]]]> Senusret Collection: Usage and Reproduction Rights]]> Centrone, Maria 2009. Egyptian Corn-mummies: A class of religious artefacts catalogued and systematically analysed (Saarbrücken: VDM), pp. 70-73, pl. XXXVII.

Parallels and References:
Cairo, Grand Egyptian Museum, 32685. Originally from Ashmunein.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 2001.547.1-2

Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum, Inv. No. 6/66

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 58.98 A-D
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 58.106 A-C

London, British Museum, EA 41552]]> Mummy: grain, sand, clay and/or soil, resin, linen bandages; 11.9 cm High x 40 cm x 6 cm
Mask: wax, gold; 4.8 cm High x 17.4 cm x 7.7 cm]]>
The bowl was purchased by Georges Ricard for the Senusret Collection on 7 July 1973 in Marseille, France at the Hotel des ventes du Prado: Vente aux enchères publiques, archeologie, objets de fouilles, monnaies anciennes, lot number 71.]]> Senusret Collection: Usage and Reproduction Rights]]> New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 32.1611
Muscarella, Oscar W. 1988. Bronze and Iron: Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 206, no. 316.

Calmeyer, Peter. 1964. Altiranische Bronzen der Sammlung Bröckelschen. Berlin: Staatlichen Museen, p. 43, Taf. 57, no. 110. ]]> 4.5 cm High x 18 cm]]>
The head was once part of a larger unfinished statue of the god with a tall back pillar. The statue remains unfinished as indicated by the original chisel marks on the neck, remaining shoulders, high back pillar and side of the statue. This head of Amun-Re was the first object purchased by Georges Ricard for the Senusret Collection.

The sculpture was purchased by Georges Ricard for the Senusret Collection on 4 March 1972 in Marseille, France at the Ventes aux enchères Hotel du Prado: Collection d’un Amateur, lot number 49.

[See additional images below]]]> Senusret Collection: Usage and Reproduction Rights]]> From the 18th Dynasty: New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 07.228.35]]> 26.7 cm High x 9 cm x 7.6 cm]]>
The statuette once part of the collection of Lord George Talbot (1763-1850) and was purchased by Georges Ricard for the Senusret Collection on 3 March 1975 from Roger F. Galliano, a member of the Conciliation Commission at Central Customs in Paris, certified expert of the Chamber of Auctioneers of France and Judicial Officer of Geneva.

[See additional images below]]]> Senusret Collection: Usage and Reproduction Rights]]> New York, Brooklyn Museum, 05.394
]]> 22.1 cm High x 5.9 cm x 11.2 cm]]>
This cartonnage head has a gilded face, and a polychrome wig, bust and details. The tripartite wig is divided into three registers on either side. At the top are confronting falcons, the middle has representations of the mummy before the seated Osiris, and at the bottom, two sets of the Four Sons of Horus face each other on either side. The top of the wig is crowned with a winged scarab and vulture goddess Nekhbet, both with wings outstretched. Nekhbet wears the atef-crown. To either side of the wig are registers with rosettes, udjat eyes, and various geometric motifs. On the back of the case are the figures of Isis and Nephthys protecting the mummy.

The mask was purchased by Georges Ricard for the Senusret Collection on 29 May 1972 in Lille, France at the Exceptionnelle vente aux enchères publiques, lot number 9.

[See additional images below]]]> Senusret Collection: Usage and Reproduction Rights]]> London, Petrie Museum of Archaeology,from Hawara, Egypt, Ptolemaic, 332-330 BC.

Stadler, Martin Andreas 2004. Ägyptische Mumienmasken in Würzburg (Schenkung Gütte). Wiesbaden: Reichert.]]> 45.5 cm High x 30.2 cm x 23.3 cm]]>
The goddess stands with arms at her side and is clothed in a gown to her ankles. The lioness wears bracelets and armlets and a multi-strand broad collar on her chest. Her head is covered by a combination of a tripartite wig and leonine mane. Her eyes were once inlaid. High-waisted torsos and long legs are typical for the Third Intermediate Period, along with finely detailed incision. 

The statuette was once part of the Dr. Jacob von Hirsch (1874-1955) collection and sold at the auction, Collection Hirsch: antiquités égyptiennes, grecques et romaines (Paris: Hôtel Drouot, 1921), lot number 33. The statuette was purchased by Georges Ricard for the Senusret Collection 13 October 1974 from Roger F. Galliano, a member of the Conciliation Commission at Central Customs in Paris, certified expert of the Chamber of Auctioneers of France and Judicial Officer of Geneva.
]]> Senusret Collection: Usage and Reproduction Rights]]> Christie’s New York, Antiquities sale no. 12257, lot 42. Ex collection Omar Pacha Sultan, Cairo]]> 37.7 cm High x 7.4 cm x 7.1 cm]]>

Taosiris’ coffin lid is decorated with a number of religious images. She wears a tripartite blue wig with rows of red, yellow, blue and green between. Below is a pectoral of disks, petals and lotus flowers ending with a row of drop beads and falcon-headed terminal fasteners. Also, around her neck, lying on top of the pectoral is a necklace with the gods Osiris, Ma’at and another god within a shrine. Below this, the kneeling figure of a winged goddess wearing a sun disk stretches out her arms, protecting the mummy. In her hands, she holds two Ma’at feathers, symbolizing truth. Above the goddess, two flanking udjat eyes, and below two sphinxes and a kneeling woman on one side before Qebhsenuef and on the other, Imsety, all facing outwards. The next scene, a djed-pillar with the crown of Osiris is flanked by two cobras wearing the atef-crowns. To either side are four sets of deities. Below these images are seven columns of offering text, framed by five vignettes to either side with three kneeling figures each. At the foot of the coffin are two images of jackal-god Anubis on his shrine, upside down, so Taosiris could view him. On the bottom of the coffin foot is a representation of the Apis bull carrying the mummy of the deceased. Above the join between the bottom of the coffin and the coffin lid are thirty-nine protective kneeling figures holding knives. The coffin interior is decorated with a full-length red outline of a goddess wearing a tripartite wig.



The face of the cartonnage mummy mask is gilded and framed by a tripartite blue wig, diadem, and broad collar. At the top of her head, the winged scarab beetle Khepri pushes a gilded sun disk. The mummy trappings include the chest covering with rows of protective winged gods, a multicolored bead collar and a winged goddess with arms outstretched holding the feathers of truth above an alternating frieze of hieroglyphs saying “all dominion and life.” The central panel shows Isis and Nepthys mourning over the mummy on a bier under a winged disk, which is framed by the Four Sons of Horus enclosed in shrines and two mourners below. The foot cover depicts sandals with straps and a buckle, with a frieze above of alternating djed-pillars and ankh signs between two representations of Anubis on his shrine. The mummy is wrapped in its original bandages.

In 1884, the coffin was given by Gaston Maspero to the French Commander Cazeneuve. In 1914, the coffin was in the collection of Gabriel Peytraud of Toulouse who wrote Charles Boreux, curator of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities at the Louvre, to ask for a translation of the coffin and the papyrus that was with it. In 1915, the coffin was acquired by the Marquis de Gestas in Tarbes. Georges Ricard acquired the coffin in May 1975.

[See additional images below]]]> Senusret Collection: Usage and Reproduction Rights]]> Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum, no. 868. In: Kaiser, Werner (ed.) 1967. Ägyptisches Museum Berlin: östlicher Stülerbau am Schloss Charlottenburg. Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Berlin: Staatliche Museen Berlin.

Memphis, Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology, University of Memphis, no. 1985.3.1a.

Brech, Ruth 2008. Spätägyptische Särge aus Achmim: eine typologische und chronologische Studie. Aegyptiaca Hamburgensia 3. Gladbeck: PeWe-Verlag, ‘Group-E.’]]> 30.5 cm x 183.5cm x 52 cm (coffin lid)
11.5 cm x 183.5cm x 52 cm (coffin base)
34 cm x 20 cm x 22 cm (mummy mask)
35.5 cm x 27 cm (pectoral trapping)
34 cm x 26.7 cm (abdominal trapping)
7.4 cm x 9.5 cm (lower leg trapping)
13 cm x 18 cm x 17 cm (foot cover)

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The cartonnage mask and mummy trappings were once part of the collection of Princess Maddevi Yukanthor, who was born in 1925 and lives in Paris. The mask was purchased by Georges Ricard for the Senusret Collection on 5 April 1974 from Roger F. Galliano, a member of the Conciliation Commission at Central Customs in Paris, certified expert of the Chamber of Auctioneers of France and Judicial Officer of Geneva.

[See additional images below]]]> Senusret Collection: Usage and Reproduction Rights]]> Washington, DC. Smithsonian, CAT number A553190
]]> Mummy mask: 34 cm High x 20 cm x 6 cm
Abdominal trapping: 15.3 cm High x 25.2 cm
Collar: 15.3 cm High x 26.2 cm
Leg cover: 37 cm High x 11.2 cm ]]>
Smen, meaning “goose,” was a member of military unit that served in Syria during the reign of king Thutmose IV. His wife, Hesetre, is shown offering to her parents, Khaset and Ruia. Another stela belonging to Smen is in the Louvre (C202), which gives the name of Smen as well as his wife, Hesetre, and their son Nai.

This stela was acquired by the Louvre at the Hôtel Drouot Sale on March 12-13, 1862, lot number 5. The stela in the Senusret Collection was purchased by Georges Ricard for the Senusret Collection on 3 March 1975 from Jean-Francois Mignon, who bought and sold objects privately in Aix-en Provence. He started his career under Roger F. Galliano, a member of the Conciliation Commission at Central Customs in Paris, certified expert of the Chamber of Auctioneers of France and Judicial Officer of Geneva.

[See additional images below]]]> Senusret Collection: Usage and Reproduction Rights]]> For Louvre C 202, see:
Boreux, Charles 1932. Musée National du Louvre, Département des Antiquités Égyptiennes : guide-catalogue sommaire (Paris: Musées Nationaux), p. 88; Pierret, Paul. Recueil d'inscriptions inédites du Musée Égyptien du Louvre (Paris : Franck, 1874-1878), pt. 2, p. 35. The stela appears in the Hôtel Drouot Sale Catalogue, March 12-13, 1862, no. 5. See also PM VIII, no, 803-045-670]]> 65 cm High x 44 cm x 7 cm]]>