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Lot 99

MAILLET EN BOIS
Égypte, Moyen Empire-Nouvel Empire, ca. 1991-1213 av. J.C.

12 December 2025, 11:00 CET
Paris, Avenue Hoche

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MAILLET EN BOIS
Égypte, Moyen Empire-Nouvel Empire, ca. 1991-1213 av. J.C.


AN EGYPTIAN WOOD MALLET
Middle Kingdom-New Kingdom, 12th-19th Dynasty, circa 1991-1213 B.C.
(Large crack from handle to base on one side)
26.5 cm (10 7/16 in.) high

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Provenance
Drouot, Paris 12th October 1998, Lot 184. Piasa auction house. (Unconfirmed).
Private collection, Belgium, acquired from the above. The purchase recorded in a December 1998 insurance document.

Sir W.M. Flinders Petrie comments that the form of such mallets/mauls used by Egyptian masons and carpenters has not yet been superseded. For mallets of similar conical form, see W.M.F. Petrie, Tools and Weapons, London, 1974, p. 40, pl. XLVI nos. 64-68.
For a similar mallet, dated to the reign of Senusret I during the 12th Dynasty (circa 1956-1911 B.C.), in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 24.1.76 and another dated New Kingdom-Ptolemaic, acc. no. 13.180.32.

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