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LOT 0476
Egyptian Palace of Amenophis III Painted Wall Plaster
NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, 1386-1349 B.C.
2 in. (17.6 grams, 50 mm).
An amorphous plaster fragment from a wall of the palace of Amenophis III; polychrome painted motif to one face; from Malkata, Thebes. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From an old UK collection.
From the private collection of Alf Baxendale (1941-2016) part 2, keen Egyptologist, member of the Egyptology Society, trustee of the Amarna Trust; thence by descent.
Accompanied by an identification display card.
Accompanied by a copy of his obituary published in Horizon, The Amarna Project and Amarna Trust newsletter, Issue 18, 2017, p.21, by Barry John Kemp, CBE, FBA, Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge and directing excavations at Amarna in Egypt.
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