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FRAGMENT OF A LIMESTONE FUNERARY STELE
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FRAGMENT OF A LIMESTONE FUNERARY STELE
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Estimate 3 000 € - 5 000 €
Voluntary lot
Description
FRAGMENT OF A LIMESTONE FUNERARY STELE
Egyptian art, New Kingdom, Ramesside period, 19th–20th Dynasties
A fragmentary relief comprising, on the left-hand side, two superimposed registers. In the first register, two figures, one of whom is a woman wearing a long wig and a perfume cone; she is accompanied by the inscription ‘his wife PA-IHET’. In the upper register is a piece of furniture with bovine-shaped legs. On the right, two columns of hieroglyphic inscriptions containing funeral wishes for the deceased.
Dimensions: 12 x 19 cm
Provenance: Former collection in Nice, acquired from the Futur Antérieur gallery, Marché Vernaison, Saint-Ouen, 1992
Galerie Chenel, Paris
Collection of a private collector from Marseille, acquired in 2021
Artcurial, Paris, 21 May 2024: lot 104 (ill.)
Private French collection
A fragmentary Egyptian limestone funerary stele,
New Kingdom, Ramesside Period, 19th–20th Dynasty
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