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Lot 221*

An Egyptian limestone relief fragment of Amenhotep I

7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An Egyptian limestone relief fragment of Amenhotep I
New Kingdom, early 18th Dynasty, circa 1500 B.C.
Depicting in raised relief, the profile head of the king, the large left eye with extended cosmetic line, wearing the Crown of Lower Egypt with a uraeus, the king receiving 'life' from a deity, through the fragmentary ankh sign which the god is holding under the king's nose, 16cm x 18.5cm

Footnotes

Provenance:
American private collection, Oregon, acquired between the 1940s and 1960s, thence by descent.

Literature:
There is a similar relief from Karnak in the Brooklyn Museum, cf. R.A. Fazzini et. al., Ancient Egyptian Art in the Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1989, no. 31.

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