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LOT 0028

Egyptian Faience Block Bead for Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye

NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1398-1338 B.C.

5/8 in. (1.84 grams, 16 mm).

Rectangular bifacial stamp with hieroglyphs writing the prenomen of Amenhotep III (Neb-Maat-Re) to obverse, and to reverse 'King's Wife Tiye'. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Ex Emile Bouillon Bey, c. 1880.
From the Gaston Maspero Archaeological Fund.
with Hotel des Ventes du Perigord, Bergerac, 24 June 2007.
Property of a French collector.

Literature

Cf. Petrie, W.M.F., Scarabs and Cylinders with Names, London, 1917, pl. XXXV, no. 154, for a variant of this design.

CONDITION

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LOT 0028

Egyptian Faience Block Bead for Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye

Sold for (Inc. bp): £520

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