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LOT 0403
Egyptian Terracotta Funerary Cone of Amenhotep
NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, 15TH-14TH CENTURY B.C.
3 in. (350 grams, 78 mm wide).
Conical, with three horizontal lines of hieroglyphic text to the end, reading: 'Scribe of reckoning barley of Amun, Amenhotep, true of voice'; tip absent. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 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.
Cf. Davies, N. de G. & Laming Macadam F., A Corpus of Inscribed Egyptian Funerary Cones, Oxford, 1957, no. 557, for the cone type.
FootnotesAlthough funerary cones of Amenhotep have been in circulation for a long time, his tomb was documented only in 1996 by Friederike Kampp-Seyfried, who assigned it the number 336.
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LOT 0403
Egyptian Terracotta Funerary Cone of Amenhotep
Estimate £300 - 400€350 - 460 (for guidance only)$410 - 540 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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