FRAGMENT OF FUNERARY TEXT Nine fragments of mummy strips evoke passages in demotic from a text taken from the Ritual of the Opening of the Mouth (scene 55), adapted to the cult of Sokar-Osiris. Several identical sentences concerning the cult of Amun in Moret, Le culte divin journalier, p. 197-198. Three funerary strips in the British Museum are similar to these, also relating the blessing before Sokar-Osiris for a certain Pashypagua (?), inv. EA35243; EA35253; EA6572; EA73793. Linen, ink and traces of bitumen. L. approx. 150 cm Egypt, Late New Kingdom - Late Period, c. 1000 - 664 BC A Rare New-Kingdom to Late Period funerary textile text formed by 9 fragments of mummy strips evoking passages in demotic, from a text taken from the Ritual of the Opening of the Mouth (scene 55), adapted to the cult of Sokar-Osiris. Several identical sentences, concerning that of Amon, in Moret, The daily divine cult, p. 197-198. Three funerary strips kept in the British Museum can be compared to these, also relating the blessing before Sokar-Osiris for a certain Pashypagua (?), inv. EA35243; EA35253; EA6572; EA73793. Circa 1000-664 BCE. Provenance Enchères Rive Gauche, Sale 19/11/2012, lot 369 Accompanied by an analysis by Prof. F.R. Herbin, dated 27 June 2005.