AN EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME WOOD `EYE` COFFIN FOR SENBI

Lot 7
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Lot 7 | AN EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME WOOD 'EYE' COFFIN FOR SENBI
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£ 150 000 – 250 000
AN EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME WOOD 'EYE' COFFIN FOR SENBI
MIDDLE KINGDOM, EARLY TO MID- 12TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1976-1853 B.C.
76 in. (193 cm.) long




Provenance

Excavated by Ahmed Kamal at Meir in 1910.
Sayed Pasha Khashaba collection, Egypt.
with Alexander Sandmeier, Göttingen, (Galerie Ägyptischer Kunst Göttingen, no. 27, 1975).
Belgian private collection, Mr A., acquired from the above; thence by descent.



Literature

A. Kamal, ‘Rapport sur les fouilles exécutées dans la zone comprise entre Deïrout au nord et Deîr-el-Ganadlah, au sud’, in Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte, Vol. 11, 1911, pp. 31-32.
B. Porter and R. L. B. Moss, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings, Lower and Middle Egypt, Vol. IV, 1968, p. 256.
H. Willems, ‘Chests of life: A study of the typology and conceptual development of Middle Kingdom standard class coffins. Mededelingen en verhandelingen van het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap’, in Ex Oriente Lux, Vol. 25, Leiden, 1988, p. 37, siglum M10.
E. Gubel, Van Nijl tot Schelde; Du Nil à l'Escaut, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, 1991, pp. 90-91, no. 82.
G. Lapp, ‘Typologie der Särge und Sargkammern von der 6. bis 13. Dynastie‘, in Studien zur Archäologie und Geschichte Altägyptens, Vol. 7, Heidelberg, 1993, siglum M45.
H. Willems, Historical and Archaeological Aspects of Egyptian Funerary Culture. Religious Ideas and Ritual Practice in Middle Kingdom Elite Cemeteries, Leiden, 2014, p. 271, siglum M9X.
Listed in the Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom database, https://pnm.uni-mainz.de/3/inscription/16268



Exhibited

Bank Brussel Lambert, Brussels, 5 April - 9 June 1991.
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