AN EGYPTIAN GREEN SCHIST VOTIVE CUBIT ROD FOR MERY-PTAH

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Lot 109 | AN EGYPTIAN GREEN SCHIST VOTIVE CUBIT ROD FOR MERY-PTAH
AN EGYPTIAN GREEN SCHIST VOTIVE CUBIT ROD FOR MERY-PTAH

NEW KINGDOM, LATE 18TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1390-1295 B.C.

21 5⁄8 in. (54.9 cm.) long





Provenance

Édouard Louis Joseph, 1st Baron Empain (1852-1929), Brussels and Heliopolis; thence by descent to his son, Jean Louis Lain Empain, 2nd Baron Empain (1902-1946), Château de Bouffémont, Val-d'Oise, France; thence by descent to his son, Édouard-Jean Empain, 3rd Baron Empain (1937-2018), Pontoise, France.

Property from the Collection of Baron Edouard Jean Empain; Antiquities, Sotheby’s, New York, 8 December 2010, lot 65.



Literature

J.H. Wegner, "A Libation Bowl with the Goddess Hathor," Glencairn Museum News, no. 7, 2017 (online journal article, www.glencairnmuseum.org).

J.H. Wegner, “A Basinophorous Statue for Meryptah and Ruiu in Glencairn Museum,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, vol. 58, 2022, pp. 278-280.
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