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LOT 0037
Egyptian Limestone Relief with Painted Head and Hieroglyphics
OLD KINGDOM, 2686-2181 B.C.
21 1/4 in. (17.7 kg total, 51 cm including stand).
Rectangular panel with incised decoration in three registers: the top line reads: '...Per-ankh, Per-aa, Semer-heb(?)', names of two institutions, 'House of Life' and 'Great House', and a title, possibly 'courtier of the council'; the second line reads '...imakhu netjer-aa', meaning 'honoured before the Great God'; the lower register preserves the upper body and profile head of a man with shoulder-length hair, wearing a broad collar, with face and body painted red and hair black; mounted on a custom-made stand.
Provenancewith Archaeologia, Switzerland, before 1983.
Ex private North American collection.
London private collection, 2016.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13447-260649.
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LOT 0037
Egyptian Limestone Relief with Painted Head and Hieroglyphics
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000€6,960 - 9,280 (for guidance only)$8,100 - 10,800 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£3,000 (EUR 3,480; USD 4,050) ‡+BP*
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Egyptian Clay Shabti Group
New Kingdom-Late Period, circa 13th-4th century B.C.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Comprising: a crude, red clay mummiform figure with minimal shaping, and a mould-formed figure with a lappet wig and crossed arms holding agricultural implements, with white pigment on the surface. 80 grams total, 9.3-12.7 cm
with a privately curated collection, 1980s-early 2000s. From the private collection and estate of Christine Simons (1943-2025), West Midlands, UK. -
Egyptian Cartonnage Section with Eye and Wing
Third Intermediate Period, circa 1069-860 B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
Sub-rectangular in plan with irregular and fragmented edge; prepared plaster surface featuring a line-bordered column with four cursive hieroglyphs naming Behedet (bḥdt); a section of finely painted outstretched wing with feather detailing to lower edge in red and blue; below, a wedjat eye in black with red medial band; fabric back to reverse. 48 grams, 17 cm
Formerly from an old collection of a Wiltshire, UK, collector, acquired before 1980. Property of a private collector, West London, UK. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
This fragment most likely originates from the lower chest section of a so-called anthropoid 'yellow coffin' from the Third Intermediate Period. The wing belongs to a protective deity; as Behedet is a name given to several locations (Edfu, Tell el-Balamun, and Lepidotonpolis) associated with Horus, it seems probable that the wing belongs to the falcon form of this god. -
Egyptian Terracotta Funerary Cone of Montuemhat
Late Period, 25th-26th Dynasty, circa 700-650 B.C.Estimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)
Bids: 7 | Current Bid: £320
The front portion of a tapering funerary cone, with the circular flat end bearing four horizontal lines of impressed hieroglyphic text, reading: 'Fourth god’s servant (of) Amun, overseer of Upper Egypt, Montuemhat, true of voice, the eldest son of his body, god’s servant (of) Amun, king’s acquaintance, Nes(u)ptah, born of the lady of the house, Nesykhonsu, true of voice'. 1.24 kg total, 15.5 cm wide including stand
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.
Some funerary cones for Montuemhat, such as this example, include members of his family, in this instance naming his son, Nesuptah, and his son’s mother, Nesykhonsu, who was Montuemhat’s first wife. From Montuemhat's tomb in the Asasif at Thebes (TT34).
