NEW KINGDOM, EARLY 18TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1550-1450 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN INSCRIBED WOOD HEADREST
NEW KINGDOM, EARLY 18TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1550-1450 B.C.
12 3⁄8 in. (31.4 cm.) wide

Provenance

with Nicholas Tano (1866-1924), Cairo (according to label on underside).
Allen L. Owens (1893-1987), CT.
Property of Allen L. Owens, Connecticut; Antiquities, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 24-25 April 1970, lot 55.
Private Collection, New York.
Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 14 December 1993, lot 371.
Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 9 December 2003, lot 40.
Private Collection, Germany, acquired from the above; thence by descent to the current owner.

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Lot Essay

The inscription to the front reads, "An offering which the King gives, which is brought to (?) the Great God, the Lord of This (or Thinis)." The inscription to the back reads, "That he may give health, one who gives life to the Ka of the scribe Nefer- (?)."

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