Egyptian Limestone Relief

An ancient Egyptian painted limestone relief fragment depicting the head and shoulder of a man in profile facing right, before him is a column of Hieroglyphic text, reading, "imy-r per," steward, with an incomplete name beginning "Khenty."

First Intermediate Period - Middle Kingdom,
10th - 11th Dynasty.
Ca. 2100 - 1900 BC.
Length: 8 1/4 in. (21 cm).

Khenty-Kety was a popular male name in the First Intermediate Period.

With Richard Philp, London; subsequently in the David Rowse Collection, London.

Inv#: 8587

$25,000

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