Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
29-30 June 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/947
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Che Property of Lord Brownlow. us 216 | A Portrair Group, 21 in. high, in grey granite, representing a > ae il man and his wife seated side by side, her right hand rests on his arm, and her left arm is round his neck, she wears a close- fitting skirt and a wig of archaic type, the man’s hands rest on his knees, he wears a short wig in the style of the Old Kingdom, a pleated kilt and a collar, traces of colour remain on both figures, a large and important piece, mounted on a wooden base with an inscription on a brass plate stating that the group was brought by Viscount Alford from a tomb in the plain of Memphis in 1850. Thinite School FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANTIQUITIES AT ROSSIE PRIORY], Ghe Property of Lord Rinnaird. 216 A ROUND-TOPPED LIMESTONE STELE, 35%n. by 151n. dedicated for the master sculptor Shen in the reign of Senus- rit I; the upper portion contains a well-cut inscription of 16 lines, consisting of the usual invocation, a list of buildings decorated by the deceased, prayers for his welfare, an adjura- tion to the living to make offerings to him at the various festivals throughout the year, and a very short autobiography stating that he came “to this temple (? Abydos), to work” in he reign of Senusrit I; below are four registers of figures ; in the first offerings are made to Shen and his wife Hems and to “their father” Atefsen and his wife Ayt, all seated; the second, third and fourth display in all 27 standing figures embedded in a cement frame; a fine and interesting specimen of the workmanship of the Middle Kingdom XII Dynasty ** Purchased from a collection of Egyptian relics and antiquities at Rome in 1823. A translation of the inscription accompanies the stele.
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