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A Limestone Figure of a Lady, 18th Dynasty, period of Amenhotep III/Horemhab, 1390-1292 B.C.
Description
- A Limestone Figure of a Lady
- Height 8 1/4 in. 21 cm.
Provenance
Marcel Dumoulin, Brussels, 1984
Royal Athena Galleries, New York, 1985.
Literature
Apollo Magazine, vol. CXXI, no. 275, January 1985, p. 37, no. 276, February 1985, p. 35, and no. 277, March 1985, p. 88
J. M. Eisenberg, Royal-Athena-Galleries, Art of the Ancient World, vol. IV, no. 65. A Guide for the Collector and Investor, New York, September, 1985, p. 135, no. 407, illus.
Jaromir Malek, Diana Magee, and Elizabeth Miles, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings VIII. Objects of Provenance not Known, part 2, Oxford, 1999, no. 801-670-360
Catalogue Note
For a related sculpture on a much larger scale see the limestone figure of the wife of Nakhtmin in the Cairo Museum, JE 31629 = CG 779B (Vandier, La statuaire égyptienne, pl. CXLV, no. 5, Russmann, Egyptian Sculpture, pp. 136-137, no. 63, F. Tiradritti, ed., Egyptian Treasures from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, New York, 1999, p. 253).