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A Limestone Round-topped Stele, Ptolemaic Period, 304-30 B.C.
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description
- A Limestone Round-topped Stele
- Height 20 by 13 1/8 by 2 1/2 in. 50.8 by 33.4 by 6.3 cm.
inscribed for Iret-hor-ru, son of Hetires, priest of the god Onuris, "scribe of the shrine of the God..., the one who is venerated under Osiris, foremost of the Westerners...," carved in sunk relief with the deceased standing in a naos and raising his hands in adoration before Osiris, Horus, and Isis, a table laden with food offerings and a large lotus flower between them, three lines of inscription below, the naos surmounted by a cavetto cornice ornamented with two winged sun-disks and a frieze of uraei, surmounted in turn by a nefer-sign flanked by Eyes of Horus and couchant figures of Anubis, another winged sun-disk in the lunette; traces of red pigment.
Provenance
New York private collection (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 19th, 1979, no. 325, illus.)