About the lot N° 45
Title : Egyptian Limestone Funerary Stela, Period : 1786
Medium : Carved at the top with two facing jackals of Anubis seated on raised platforms above two rows of text, a figural scene below with the deceased on the left behind a table of offerings, facing a standing figure of a man called 'Userhat' offering a duck, a woman called 'Merthor-Sherit' standing behind, with her right arm raised, the offering text continuing below to, 'Horus of Edfu on behalf of the deceased also called Userhat, who was a brewer of the shuyt-drink', Notes : Provenance:From Edfu, discovered in 1932. Sold at Christie's London on 2 December, 1969, lot 128. Acquired by the current owner in London in the mid 1970s.Published:M. Alliot, Fouilles de L'Institut Français du Caire, Fouilles de Tell Edfu, (Cairo 1933), no. 10, pl.XV, 1.Christie's London, Catalogue of Primitive Art, Classical, Egyptian, Western Asiatic and Islamic Antiquities, 2 December, 1969, lot 128.Bonhams 3, auctioneer, London, UK
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Sale title : Antiquities
Sale date : 01 May 2008
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