Lot 13
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AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED LIMESTONE RELIEF FRAGMENT FROM THE TOMB OF NY-ANKH-NESU
PROPERTY FROM A COLORADO COLLECTION
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED LIMESTONE RELIEF FRAGMENT FROM THE TOMB OF NY-ANKH-NESU

OLD KINGDOM, REIGN OF TETI, CIRCA 2345-2291 B.C.

Details
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED LIMESTONE RELIEF FRAGMENT FROM THE TOMB OF NY-ANKH-NESU
OLD KINGDOM, REIGN OF TETI, CIRCA 2345-2291 B.C.
16 in. (41 cm.) high
Provenance
Edwin Weisl, Jr. (1929-2005), New York.
The Brooklyn Museum, New York, gifted from the above, 1979 (Accession no. 79.176).
The Brooklyn Museum, New York; Antiquities, Christie's, London, 9 December 1992, lot 196.

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Lot Essay

This relief depicts offering bearers from the tomb of Ny-Ankh-Nesu, Count, Overlord of Nekheb. The tomb was built in Saqqara in early Dynasty VI and said to have been discovered in 1917 already in ruins. According to L. Berman, the surviving reliefs were taken to Europe and sold to various museums from Honolulu to Jerusalem (Catalogue of Egyptian Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, p. 135, no. 76).
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