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LOT 0472
Egyptian Alabaster Fragment Probably from a Chest with a Representation of Pharaoh Akhenaten
NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, AMARNA PERIOD, 1379-1362 B.C.
3 3/8 in. (299 grams, 87 mm).
Irregular fragment with one dressed face carved with rays of Aten and other detailing. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired in April 1980.
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
Accompanied by an old handwritten information card by Peter Clayton, collection no.148.
Cf. Seyfried, F. (ed.), In the Light of Amarna: 100 Years of the Nefertiti Discovery, Berlin, 2012, p. 194, fig. 3, for a stela fragment depicting the Aten disc with radiating 'arms' and a faintly carved uraeus at the centre-bottom of the disc.
FootnotesScenes depicting Akhenaten and family members often included the prominent Aten sun disc with radiating rays ending in human hands. This fragment appears to show the lower-right side of the disc, with a faint trace of a possible uraeus - typically seen at the bottom centre of the Aten disc.
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LOT 0472
Egyptian Alabaster Fragment Probably from a Chest with a Representation of Pharaoh Akhenaten
Estimate £300 - 400€350 - 460 (for guidance only)$410 - 540 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Egyptian Terracotta Funerary Cone of Amenhotep
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, 15th-14th century B.C.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Conical, with three horizontal lines of hieroglyphic text to the end, reading: 'Scribe of reckoning barley of Amun, Amenhotep, true of voice'; tip absent. 350 grams, 78 mm wide
Acquired from Abdoul Rassoul on the West Bank at Luxor, 1974-1980 when a guest lecturer. From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
Although funerary cones of Amenhotep have been in circulation for a long time, his tomb was documented only in 1996 by Friederike Kampp-Seyfried, who assigned it the number 336. -
Egyptian Terracotta Funerary Cone of Menkheperreseneb
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, 15th century B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Front portion of a tapering funerary cone, with the circular flat surface impressed with four vertical columns of hieroglyphs, reading: 'The Osiris, hereditary prince, count, chancellor of the king of Lower Egypt, first god's servant of Amun, Menkheperreseneb, true of voice.' 554 grams, 10.4 cm
Acquired from Abdoul Rassoul on the West Bank at Luxor, 1974-1980 when a guest lecturer. From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
Menkheperreseneb served under the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Thutmosis III. His tomb (TT 86) is in the Theban necropolis at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna. -
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Egyptian Blue Glazed Faience Shabti of the Osiris Pedi-Khonsu
Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, circa 980-935 B.C.Estimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Mummiform type wearing a lappet wig, with arms crossed and hands holding hoes, black-painted detailing on the face, lappet ends, sash tie encircling the wig, seed bag across the back, and a column of hieroglyphic text on the lower body; mounted on a display stand, repaired. 183 grams total, 12.9 cm including stand
Ex E.B.W.Chappelors collection, July 1958. From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s. Accompanied by an old handwritten information card by Peter Clayton, collection no.41.
The writing of Khonsu on this shabti is reversed from the usual spelling and matches another example in the Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel, Switzerland, for the same individual (Schlögl, H.A., and Brodbeck, A., Ägyptische Totenfiguren aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Schweiz, Göttingen, 1990, p. 213, no. 135).
