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An Egyptian limestone funerary stela

Sold for £ 10,800 (US$ 13,248) inc. premium

1 May 2008, 10:30 BST

An Egyptian limestone funerary stela
Second Intermediate Period, 13th Dynasty, circa 1786-1663 B.C.
Carved at the top with two facing jackals of Anubis seated on raised platforms above two rows of text, a figural scene below with the deceased on the left behind a table of offerings, facing a standing figure of a man called 'Userhat' offering a duck, a woman called 'Merthor-Sherit' standing behind, with her right arm raised, the offering text continuing below to, 'Horus of Edfu on behalf of the deceased also called Userhat, who was a brewer of the shuyt-drink', 14¼in (36.2cm) high, some damage, mounted

Footnotes

Provenance:
From Edfu, discovered in 1932. Sold at Christie's London on 2 December, 1969, lot 128. Acquired by the current owner in London in the mid 1970s.

Published:
M. Alliot, Fouilles de L'Institut Français du Caire; Fouilles de Tell Edfu, (Cairo 1933), no. 10, pl.XV, 1.
Christie's London, Catalogue of Primitive Art, Classical, Egyptian, Western Asiatic and Islamic Antiquities, 2 December, 1969, lot 128.

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