About the lot N° 55
Title : A Limestone Relief Fragment, Sakkara, Late 5Th/Early 6Th Dynasty, Circa 2390-2340 B.C.
Size : 13 1/4 by 33 3/4 in. 34 by 86 cmProvenance : PROPERTY FROM AN AUSTRALIAN PRIVATE COLLECTIONChristie's, London, March 23rd, 1971, no. 147, illus.Charles Ede, London, 1973Literature : Charles Ede Ltd., Small Sculpture from Ancient Egypt, London, 1973, no. 1, illus. (left part)Charles Ede, Collecting Antiquities: An Introductory Guide, London, 1976, p. 87, fig. 225 (left half)Bertha Porter and Rosalind L. B. Moss, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings, III: Memphis, Part 2: Saqqâra to Dashûr, Oxford, 1981, p. 595Notes : This relief comes from the tomb chapel of the priest Seshemnefer, also named Heba, Royal Chamberlain and Prophet of the Pyramids of Menkauhor and Djedkare (Isesi) at Sakkara (see Auguste Mariette, Les mastabas de l'ancien empire, Paris, 1889, repr. Hildesheim and New York, 1976, pp. 398-400, no. E8 [with drawing of the false door], George A. Reisner, The development of the Egyptian Tomb down to the Accession of Cheops, Oxford, 1936, p. 409, and Helen Jacquet-Gordon, Les noms des domaines funéraires sous l'ancien empire égyptien, Cairo, 1962, p. 406.). The figures personifying the estates of the deceased are labeled, from left to right, The sycamore tree of Seshemnefer, The fig of Heba, The vine of Seshemnefer, The wah-fruit of Heba, and The creation of Seshemnefer. For other relief fragments from the same frieze see Jacques-F. Aubert, in Orientalia, N.S., vol. 44, 1975, pp. 2-11, pls. I-III, and Müller-Feldmann, Zeugnisse altägyptischer Kultur aus europäischem Privatbesitz, catalogue of the exhibition at the Folkwang Museum, Essen, February 1st to March 15th, 1966, no. 80, fig. 14.Sotheby's, auctioneer, New York, US
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