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An Egyptian Polychrome Cartonnage Apron
,late Ptolemaic Period, circa 100-30 B.C.
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An Egyptian Polychrome Cartonnage Apron
,late Ptolemaic Period, circa 100-30 B.C.
decorated with the four Sons of Horus arranged vertically in two confronted pairs, a checkerboard pattern below, a frieze of lotus buds above.
15 by 5 1/2 in. 38.1 by 14 cm.
Provenance
Rainer Kriebel (1908-?), acquired in Cairo in 1965/1966
by descent to the present owner
by descent to the present owner
Catalogue Note
After serving during the second World War Rainer Kriebel was recruited as an analyst by US military intelligence. He then became a military advisor to Syria in the 1950s, and later military attaché to the German Federal Republic's embassy to Egypt in Cairo in the 1960s. He is the co-author of Inside the Afrika Corps, London, 1999. References to his career can be found in: J. Ballinger, The Shattered Silence: The Eli Cohen Affair, New York, 1971, and Akten zur Auswärtigen Politik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1964, Munich, 1995.
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