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AN EGYPTIAN WOODEN SCRIBE'S PALETTE AND THREE REED PENS
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AN EGYPTIAN WOODEN SCRIBE'S PALETTE AND THREE REED PENS

SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1782-1573 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN WOODEN SCRIBE'S PALETTE AND THREE REED PENS
SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1782-1573 B.C.
Of long, rectangular form, with two recessed disks at one end for the pigment (black still remaining) with hieratic ink inscription down the covered half reading: "The Elder of the Portal of Swt..Hwt wrt.. Djehutynakht, priest of Ra, lu-em-hetep... Py-pwy.."
16¼ in. (41.3 cm.) long
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Lot Essay

Hwt wrt (Avaris) was the administrative centre of the north during the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period, when it was under the rule of the Hyksos. The palette appears to date to a period before the sack of Avaris by Kamose, the 'founding father' of the Theban 18th Dynasty.

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