Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

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An Egyptian Bronze Situla, 25th/early 26th Dynasty, circa 750-600 B.C.

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10,000 - 15,000 GBP

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An Egyptian Bronze Situla

25th/early 26th Dynasty, circa 750-600 B.C.


of slender form with knobbed base and high suspension handle, engraved at left with the priest Petemestous, son of Inaros, seated before an offering table and wearing a panther-skin cloak and ointment cone, facing his son the priest Djedkhy wearing a panther-skin cloak and long transparent kilt, holding an incense burner and pouring a libation, the fourteen columns of inscription with a prayer on behalf of Petemestous.

Height with handle 27.5; height without handle 16 cm.

Lady Meux (1847-1910), Theobald’s Park, Hertfordshire, by repute
Annie Trotter, London
Ingrid McAlpine (1939-2018), London and  Epsom, acquired from the above October 22nd, 1993
Wooley & Wallis, Salisbury, September 19th, 2019, no. 1954, illus.

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