AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE ROUND-TOPPED STELE FOR IRET-HOR-RU

Lot 8
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ID 1334749
Lot 8 | AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE ROUND-TOPPED STELE FOR IRET-HOR-RU
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE ROUND-TOPPED STELE FOR IRET-HOR-RU
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 332-30 B.C.
20 in. (50.8 cm.) high




Provenance

U.S. private collection, New York.
Antiquities, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 19 May 1979, lot 325.
U.S. private collection, Pennsylvania.
Property from a Pennsylvania Private Collection; Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 6 June 2006, lot 75.
with Charles Ede, London, (Egyptian Antiquities, 2010, p. 16).
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 2010.



Literature

P. Clayton, "Ancient Egypt," in M. Merrony, ed., Mougins Museum of Classical Art, Mougins, 2011, p. 37, fig. 10.
M. Merrony, "L'Ancienne Egypte," in M. Merrony ed., Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins: La Collection Famille Levett, Mougins, 2012, p. 25.



Exhibited

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, 2011-2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA548).
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