Prop🐠🤡erty from the Estate of Paul and Marianne Steiner
An Inscribed Fragment of an Egyptian Limestone Statue Group, mid 18th Dynasty, circa 1480-1380 B.C.
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July 6, 12:06 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Property fromꦐ the Estate o🐽f Paul and Marianne Steiner
An Inscribe♑d Fragment of an Egyptian Limestone Statue Gr♌oup
mid 18th Dynasty, circa 1480-1380 B.C.
probably part of a double ushabti of a husband and wife, the upper part of the front restored and/or re-worked in modern times, the columns of insಌcription in front and in back finely carved in sunk relief, and naming a Songstress of Mut, the Mistress of the House Wadj-renpet.
Height 28.6 cm.
This object is recorded on the insurance appraisal of the Steiner collection by Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, dated November 8th, 1973.
For a complete double ushabti of the mid-18th Dynasty, now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, see William C. Hayes, The Scepter of Egypt, Part II, The Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom (1675-1080 B.C.), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1959, fig. 68, pp. 129-130.
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