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LOT 0520
Egyptian Granite Relief
NEW KINGDOM, 1550-1292 B.C.
7 3/8 in. (3.57 kg, 18.7 cm).
Relief fragment with dressed face and three edges; the feet and lower body of a human figure in profile wearing a tight-fitting calf-length garment on a baseline; the left forearm behind with hand holding a goose by its pinions; to the left a series of ḥtp hieroglyphs.
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12366-226937.
See similar offering scenes in Stupko-Lubczynska, A., Offering scenes in the chapel of Hatshepsut, Warsaw, 2016, figs.5, 30,34, 37, 105-106.
FootnotesThis likely represents part of an offering scene, showing the individual bringing a goose and the hieroglyphs writing ḥtpt, probably part of a phrase referring to 'offerings'.
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