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PROPERTY FROM THE HARER FAMILY TRUST COLLECTION
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF
FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 2134-2040 B.C.
Details
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF
FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 2134-2040 B.C.
Preserving two registers carved in sunk relief, the upper register with a hieroglyphic inscription and an invocation to the god Anubis, the first line, reading: "An offering which the King gives to Anubis on his mound, lord of WT (?), lord of the holy land, for funerary offering of bread and beer for him;" the second line, reading: "In the Wag-Feast, the Thoth Feast, the opening of the year feast, the new year’s day feast, the Sokar feast, the monthly feast and the half monthly feast;" the lower register depicting a procession of seven figures, five identified as lector priests, the second on the left labeled a scribe, carrying a goose as an offering, followed by a man wearing a pleated-kilt and holding a staff, entitled "Inspector of Prophet Yi (?)," his son Sautet before him, depicted on a diminutive scale, followed by another man holding a staff, labeled the "the lector, Nefer-reupit," and a woman entitled "the Royal Ornament, Sautet"
24 x 13 in. (60.8 x 32.7 cm.)
FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 2134-2040 B.C.
Preserving two registers carved in sunk relief, the upper register with a hieroglyphic inscription and an invocation to the god Anubis, the first line, reading: "An offering which the King gives to Anubis on his mound, lord of WT (?), lord of the holy land, for funerary offering of bread and beer for him;" the second line, reading: "In the Wag-Feast, the Thoth Feast, the opening of the year feast, the new year’s day feast, the Sokar feast, the monthly feast and the half monthly feast;" the lower register depicting a procession of seven figures, five identified as lector priests, the second on the left labeled a scribe, carrying a goose as an offering, followed by a man wearing a pleated-kilt and holding a staff, entitled "Inspector of Prophet Yi (?)," his son Sautet before him, depicted on a diminutive scale, followed by another man holding a staff, labeled the "the lector, Nefer-reupit," and a woman entitled "the Royal Ornament, Sautet"
24 x 13 in. (60.8 x 32.7 cm.)
Provenance
Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 12 July 1971, lot 37.
Private Collection, Scotland.
Antiquities, Christie's, London, 12 December 1990, lot 199.
with Charles Ede, London, 1990s.
Private Collection, Scotland.
Antiquities, Christie's, London, 12 December 1990, lot 199.
with Charles Ede, London, 1990s.
Literature
G.D. Scott, III, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, San Bernardino, 1992, no. 39.
Exhibited
San Bernardino, University Art Gallery, 1992; Arizona State University Museum, 1993; and San Antonio Museum of Art, 1993-1996; Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection.
San Bernardino, Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, 1997-2010.
San Bernardino, Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, 1997-2010.
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