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A Dutch Private Collection of Egyptian Art (Lots 50-58)
Lot 55*

An Egyptian terracotta funerary cone

22 November – 9 December 2024, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, New Bond Street

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An Egyptian terracotta funerary cone

New Kingdom, circa 1550-1069 B.C.
17cm long

Footnotes

Provenance:
Private collection, Germany, since 1980.
with bb-antiken & asiatica, Augsburg.
Private collection, Rotterdam, acquired from the above April 2013.

Cf. M. F. Laming Macadam, A Corpus of Inscribed Egyptian Funerary Cones, part I, plates, Oxford, 1957, no. 374.

Funerary cones were arranged in one or more rows at the entrance of a tomb and from the 18th Dynasty, the base of the cones started to be impressed with the name and titles of the tomb's owner. The owner's name has been read as Menna son of Mer-Amun, from Thebes.

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