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LOT 0489
Egyptian Tell el Amarna Artefact Collection
NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, 1350-1334 A.D.
2 - 5 5/8 in. (711 grams total, 5.2-14.4 cm).
A group of five ceramic fragments from Tell el Amarna, comprising: a bread mould fragment with one rounded face, believed to originate from the Small Aten Temple; a decorated blue ware fragment featuring a polychrome painted geometric design; a fragment believed to have come from the King's House, Tell el Amarna; a probable miniature vessel with foot and chipped rim. [4, 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 three identification display cards.
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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