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LOT 0001
Egyptian Alabaster Bowl with Incised Inner Circle
OLD KINGDOM, CIRCA 2700-2513 B.C.
8 1/4 in. (749 grams, 21 cm wide).
Squat bowl with returned lip to the rim, incised ring to the centre.
Provenance
Acquired from Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS FBA (1853-1942), who had both found and repaired the piece; a British Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts.
From the private collection of the late Mrs Belinda Ellison, long time member of the Egyptian Exploration Society, c.1940-2020.
Literature
Cf. Guidotti, M.C., Vasi dall’epoca protodinastica al Nuovo Regno, Museo Egizio di Firenze, Rome, 1991, p.78, no.11.
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