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Carved with two jackals and the deceased, table of offerings, a male, Userhat, a female Merthor Sherit, and an offering inscription.

h. 43.5 x w. 29.2 cm

Second Intermediate Period, 13th Dynasty, 1786-1663 BC

Limestone

Provenance

Discovered in 1932, Edfu, Egypt
Christie's, London, lot 128, 2nd December 1969
Ex private collection, London, acquired in London in the mid 1970s
Consigned by the above to Bonhams, London
Acquired at Bonhams, London, 1st May 2008, lot 45

Publications

M. Alliot, Tell Edfou. Fouilles de l'lnstitut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire. Rapports préliminaries. Tome dixième, deuxième partie., Imprimerie de l'Institut, Cairo, 1935, p.14, Fn. 3; p. 31, No. 7, pl. XV, 1
Christie's, Catalogue of Primitive Art, Classical, Egyptian, Western Asiatic and Islamic Antiquities, London, 2nd December 1969, lot 128
J. J. Clère, Review of The Fortress of Buhen. The Inscriptions, by H. S. Smith. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 67, 1981, p. 191
Pascal Vernus ; sous la direction de Jean Leclant, Edfou, du début de la XIIe dynastie au début de la XVIIIe dynastie. Études philologiques, sociologiques et historiques d'un corpus documentaire de l'Égypte pharaonique, 1987, no. 33, pl. 18.b
S. Kubisch, Lebensbilder Der 2. Zwischenzeit: Biographische Inschriften der 13.-17. Dynastie. 34., Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York, 2008, 191-193 (Edfu 4) [h, t]
Bonhams, Antiquities Sale, London, 1st May 2008, lot 45
P. Clayton, "Ancient Egypt" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, 2011, p. 36, fig. 5
M. Merrony, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins. La collection de la Famille Levett, France, 2012, p.25
Ville de Mougins, "Le MACM rayonne à l'international", Mougins Infos, 2017-2018, no. 2, pp. 42-45

Exhibitions

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011

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Limestone Funerary Stela

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