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Lot 278

An Egyptian limestone offering table

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

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An Egyptian limestone offering table
Ptolemaic Period, circa 323-30 B.C.
The top carved in raised relief with a lotus flanked by two tall wine-jars, in turn flanked by circular loaves and cuts of meat, the left border with remains of text, asking the goddess Mut for water, the right border addresses Hathor and apparently names the owner as a woman called Weret(?) Aat, the bottom side of the table with partly intelligible inscription: 'born of the Lady of the House, Nefret-shep(?), 26.5cm x 28cm wide, 5cm deep

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Provenance:
Private collection, Germany, acquired on the German art market prior to 1973.
Anonymous sale; Auktionshaus Dr Hüll, Cologne, 17 September 2014, lot 433.
Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired at the above sale.

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