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LOT 0008
Sold for (Inc. bp): £585
EGYPTIAN QUARTZITE FRAGMENT WITH HIEROGLYPHS
NEW KINGDOM, 1550-1069 B.C.
5 1/8 in. (320 grams total, 13 cm wide including stand).
NEW KINGDOM, 1550-1069 B.C.
5 1/8 in. (320 grams total, 13 cm wide including stand).
Dressed stela or shrine fragment inscribed with three vertical columns of enigmatic hieroglyphs; mounted on a plaque.
PROVENANCE:
From an American deceased estate, acquired between 1970-1989.
with Bonhams, London, 28 October 2009, no.23.
Private collection, Europe.
FOOTNOTES:
The second-to-last complete sign in the central register is a semi-hieratic version of the balancing post hieroglyph, suggesting an 18th Dynasty or later New Kingdom date.
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