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LOT 0638
Egyptian Bell-Shaped Cartonnage Element from a Mummy Case
GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.-2ND CENTURY A.D.
2 3/4 in. (20 grams, 69 mm).
Bell-shaped in form with a conical top feature, the outer face is primed to accept painted petal detailing; inner layers are in loosely woven fabric. [No Reserve]
Provenancewith a privately curated collection, 1980s-early 2000s.
From the private collection and estate of Christine Simons (1943-2025), West Midlands, UK.
Cf. Edgar, C.C., Catalogue Général du Musée du Caire Nos. 33101-33285, Graeco-Egyptian coffins, masks and portraits, Cairo, 1905, pl. XLVI; Portraits funéraires de l’Égypte romaine: Cartonnages, linceuls et bois, pp.90-91, no. 7; pp. 96-97, no.10, for two upper halves of cartonnage cases with modelled breasts.
FootnotesThis is an intriguing object, possibly a breast from a cartonnage mummy case. For example, some Roman-period cartonnage cases from Akhmim were modelled with female physiognomies, including wide hips and modelled breasts.
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LOT 0638
Egyptian Bell-Shaped Cartonnage Element from a Mummy Case
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Late-Ptolemaic Period, circa 664-30 B.C.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Rectangular fragment with dowel and dowel holes, with a black bitumen-like varnish. 157 grams, 25 cm
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Bids: 6 | Current Bid: £175
Complete cone, preserving its slender tapering form, with the flat circular end faintly impressed with four horizontal lines of abraded hieroglyphic text reading: 'An offering which the king gives to Osiris, lord of eternity, may he give a voice offering of all good purified things, for the ka of the scribe of documents of the god's wife, Qenamun, true of voice'. 450 grams, 21.4 cm
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Qenamun's title indicates that he was responsible for the legal correspondence, decrees, and official documentation issued by or sent to the institution of the royal priestess of Amun. Although abraded, this cone is clearer in certain areas of the inscription than the one recorded by Davies and Macadam in their 1957 catalogue of funerary cones. Qenamun's tomb in the Theban necropolis has not yet been identified. -
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Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Estimate: £500 - 700 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £250
Ovoid jar with a rounded base, concave shoulders and flared neck; remains of lug handles, restored. 332 grams, 14 cm
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.
