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Lot Description

An Egyptian Pottery Fragment with Hieroglyphs

New Kingdom, 18th-20th Dynasty, 1550-1070 B.C.

Height 2 1/4 inches (5.6 cm).

This lot is located in Chicago.

Property from a West Hollywood Collection

Provenance:
Private Collection, New York, acquired in the 1960s; thence by descent to the current owner.

This potsherd is inscribed in ink with two columns of hieroglyphs, reading right to left. The right-hand column is the latter part of a male personal name, with the epithet applied to a blessed deceased person. The preserved part of the left-hand column reads “mut-ef,” It is suggested that the column could be restored as “[Ka ?]-mutef,” literally “Bull of His Mother,” which is an epithet of Min and Amun, or possibly “[Dua ?]-mutef,” yielding “Duamutef,” one of the Four Sons of Horus who guard the internal organs of the mummy in the canopic jars. A complete translation available upon request.

For an example of a complete canopic jar made from burnished red pottery and black ink, see a the National Museum of Scotland (Inv. no. A.1921.1494).

Condition Report

Length 3 7/16 inches (8.74 cm).
Height with stand 4 inches (10.16 cm).

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