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Lot 277

An Egyptian round-topped wood polychrome funerary stele

3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An Egyptian round-topped wood polychrome funerary stele
Thebes, Late Period, 26th Dynasty, circa 664-525 B.C.
The upper section with a winged sun-disc and text of a wish that Horus of Edfu grant life, the deceased shown below, facing left and making offerings to Osiris and the Four Sons of Horus, six rows of finely written hieroglyphs below, with a standard prayer to Osiris for funerary offerings, ending with the fuller text version asking for 'what heaven gives, the earth creates and the Nile brings' for the Wab Priest of Amun called Nespakashuty, son of the Wab Priest of Amun, Nayw-khered and the Lady of the House, Dit-Bastet-rwdjes, 41.5cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired prior to 1975.

For similar, see P. Munroe, Die spätägyptischen Totenstelen, ÄF 25, Glückstadt, 1973, Tafel 3, abb. 11 and 12.

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