Lot 17
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AN EGYPTIAN WOOD FIGURE OF AN OFFICIAL ON A SEPARATE WOOD BASE FOR SENWOSRETY
AN EGYPTIAN WOOD FIGURE OF AN OFFICIAL ON A SEPARATE WOOD BASE FOR SENWOSRETY
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These lots have been imported from outside the EU … Read more PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM KELLY SIMPSON
AN EGYPTIAN WOOD FIGURE OF AN OFFICIAL ON A SEPARATE WOOD BASE FOR SENWOSRETY

THE BASE: MIDDLE KINGDOM, 12TH-13TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1985-1773 B.C.THE FIGURE: LATE PERIOD, 26TH-30TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 663-332 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN WOOD FIGURE OF AN OFFICIAL ON A SEPARATE WOOD BASE FOR SENWOSRETY
THE BASE: MIDDLE KINGDOM, 12TH-13TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1985-1773 B.C.
THE FIGURE: LATE PERIOD, 26TH-30TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 663-332 B.C.
16 in. (40.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Joseph Lindon Smith (1863-1950), American painter, New Hampshire, acquired 1915 or prior.
Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 24 November 1986, lot 194 (part).
Exhibited
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 3 March 1915-13 November 1919 (Loan no. 881.51); 22 December 1986-24 April 2001 (Loan number T.704.1.1986).
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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, Vol. XIII, no. 77, Boston, June 1915, p. 48.
H.L. Story, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Fortieth Annual Report For the Year 1915, Boston, 1916, p. 111.
The wood base has six horizontal lines of hieroglyphs reading: "A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris, Lord of Ankh-tawy, that he may give invocation-offerings of bread and beer, oxen and fowl, food-offerings, alabaster vessels and garments, every beautiful, pure thing which a god lives thereon, for the Ka of the Venerated One before the Great God, the Inspector of Followers/Retainers Senwosrety, born of Henut, Justified; Possessor of Veneration.”

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