
Louise Termignon
Stock Inventory and Discovery Sale Coordinator
€2,000 - €3,000

Stock Inventory and Discovery Sale Coordinator

Senior Specialist

Consultant
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Flinders Petrie comments that the form of such mallets/mauls used by Egyptian masons and carpenters has not yet been superseded.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.