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Lot Description

An Egyptian Sandstone Relief Fragment

Ptolemaic Period, 304-30 B.C.

Height 12 3/16 inches (31 cm).

This lot is located in Chicago.

Property from a West Hollywood Collection

Provenance:
Joel L. Malter Auction, Los Angeles, Ethnic Art Auction, 26 February 1989.
Dr. De Wayne Powers, World Affairs Council, acquired from the above.

This fragment likely from a temple wall features a figure carrying a tray heaped with offerings. The figure personifies a nome or administrative district. The standard atop its head prominently features a bull which likely identifies him as the standard of the 11th nome of Lower Egypt, with its metropolis at Leontopolis. There is a hieroglyphic group to the right of the bull-standard which can be read as “Powerful One of the Lords.”

For more on these nomes , see W. Helck & E. Otto, Kleines Wörterbuch der Aegyptologie, 2nd ed. (Wiesbaden, 1970) pp. 114-115; and, Eva Pardey, “Provincial Administration,” in D. B. Redford, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (New York, 2001) vol. 1 pp. 16-20.

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