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Descripción : finely carved in shallow relief with the owner, Meruka, seated on a chair with bovine legs, an offering table before him, his left clenched fist held to his chest, and wearing a wrap-around kilt with broad belt, broad collar, short beard, and long wig falling to the shoulders, his face with full lips, flaring nostril, and large almond-shaped eye with tapering contoured eyebrow and cosmetic line, the three lines of inscription translating "An offering given by the King and Anubis who presides over the divine pavilion: let him be buried in the necropolis, he who is known of the King, Prophet of Khufu, wab-priest of the King, and Elder of the Hall, Meruka."
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Título : AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF OF MERUKA, PROPHET OF KHUFU, LATE 5TH/EARLY 6TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 2350-2250 B.C. | An Egyptian Limestone Relief of Meruka, Prophet of Khufu
Talla : 35.6 by 80 cm.
Procedencia : from the Mastaba of Meruka at Giza, excavated by Montague Ballard in the Winter of 1901-02 Giovanni Dattari (d. 1923), Cairo (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Antiquités égyptiennes, grecques et romaines. Les collections de feu M. Jean Lambros d'Athenes et de M. Giovanni Dattari du Caire, Paris, 17th-19th June 1912, no. 283, pl. XXIV) Mr. C. d'Aquin, Paris William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), San Simeon, California, acquired from the above on 20th June 1922 through his company International Studio Art Corporation Parish-Watson & Co., New York, on consignment from the above Joseph Brummer (1883-1947), New York, inv. no. N4449, acquired from the above on 2nd June 1939 Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Part II of the Notable Art Collection Belonging to the Estate of the Late Joseph Brummer, 11th-14th May 1949, no. 64 Denys Sutton, London, acquired at the above auction American private Collection, by descent (Sotheby's New York, 6 December 2012, no. 43, illus.)
Literature : Henry G. Fischer, "Old Kingdom Inscriptions in the Yale Gallery," Mitteilungen des Instituts für Orientforschung, vol. 7, fasc. 3, 1960, pp. 310-311, pl. II T. Coffman, ed., The William Randolph Hearst Collection [microform]: Photographs and Acquisition Records on Microfiche, New York, 1987, book 45, entries 43-53, card 213, illus. (Egyptian antiquities)
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Título de venta : Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Fecha de la venta : 03/07/2018 🔓Sin tarjeta de crédito.
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