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Lot Description

An Egyptian Painted Limestone Stele of Simut, Second Prophet of Amun

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Reign of Amenhotep III, 1391-1353 B.C.

Height 8 inches (20 cm).

Property from an Important Midwestern Scholar

Provenance:
Collection PL, Nancy, France, prior to 1980.
Acquired from Arteas Ltd., London, via Galerie Gilgamesh, Paris, 2009.

Published:
A Kozloff, Egypt’s Radiant Pharaoh, Cambridge, 2012, p. 243, fig. 49.

Exhibited:
Brussels Ancient Art Fair, Belgium, 2010.

Note:
A seated figure labeled with the partially missing but securely restorable name of a son of the famous vizier Ramose, reading: "[Si-m]ut son of [Ra-]mose." The vizier Ramose is well known today for his own beautiful tomb in the Theban Necropolis.

Condition Report

Height with stand 9 1/8 inches (23.4 cm); Width 5 1/2 inches (14 cm).

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