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Description : PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION A LIMESTONE ROUND-TOPPED STELE 11 1/4 by 8 by 3 1/2 in. 28.6 by 20.3 by 8.9 cm. carved in sunk relief in the lower register with three figures separated by columns of inscription, the owner Res, son of the Magnate of the Tens of Upper Egypt, facing Amun-khuf and To, Maidservant of the Prince, the five lines of inscription above invoking Ptah-Sokar-Osiris and naming as the dedicant a brother of Res, The Magnate of the Tens of Upper Egypt Au-res, a protective shen-sign flanked by udjat-eyes in the lunette above. PROVENANCE John Lee, 1783-1866, Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney, 1835-1909 (Sotheby's, London, The Amherst Collection of Egyptian & Oriental Antiquities, June 14th, 1921, no. 223) deaccessioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1956 acquired from the above by the present owner LITERATURE Joseph Bonomi, Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the Museum of Hartwell House, London, 1858, no. 450 William C. Hayes, The Scepter of Egypt. A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Part I: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Middle Kingdom, New York, 1953, p. 346, fig. 227 (upper right)
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