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PROPERTY FROM A GERMAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF FOR HEN-GEGU
OLD KINGDOM, 6TH DYNASTY, 2323-2150 B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF FOR HEN-GEGU
OLD KINGDOM, 6TH DYNASTY, 2323-2150 B.C.
Sculpted in sunk relief, preserving Hen-gegu, Lector Priest of Thoth, facing left, wearing a short wig and a belted kilt, holding a sekhem scepter in his lowered left hand and a staff out before him in his right, a vertical border behind, an identifying inscription above
14¾ in. (37.4 cm.) high
OLD KINGDOM, 6TH DYNASTY, 2323-2150 B.C.
Sculpted in sunk relief, preserving Hen-gegu, Lector Priest of Thoth, facing left, wearing a short wig and a belted kilt, holding a sekhem scepter in his lowered left hand and a staff out before him in his right, a vertical border behind, an identifying inscription above
14¾ in. (37.4 cm.) high
Provenance
with Galerie Antiker Kunst, Hamburg, 1976.
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