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Lot 124

Four Egyptian pottery vessels
together with an Egyptian clay funerary cone,
5

6 July 2021, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Four Egyptian pottery vessels
Predynastic Period-Middle Kingdom, circa 4000-1793 B.C.
Comprising a small black-topped pottery jar of ovoid form, with ink number '567', Naqada I-II, 13.5cm high; two rough ware jars with pointed bases, Middle Kingdom, 10.5cm and 11.5cm high; and a bowl, the sides tapering to a narrow flat base, with red slip interior, with ink number '545' on the underside, 22.5cm diam.; together with an Egyptian clay funerary cone,
Thebes, New Kingdom, circa 1550-1069 B.C., the circular face impressed with three rows of hieroglyphs for the scribe Hery-Tep-Hwt-Amun, 11cm long (5)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Private collection, UK, acquired prior to 1964.

The funerary cone is M. F. Laming Macadam, A Corpus of Inscribed Egyptian Funerary Cones, Oxford, 1957, no. 547.

For a similar Middle Kingdom water jar, see J. Bourriau, Pottery from the Nile Valley before the Arab Conquest, Cambridge, 1981, p.70-71.

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