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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 12, 2016 | Christie's | New York | Antiquities Sale | 121 | $****** - ****** | AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE STELE FOR WEDJA-REN-ES |
sculpture
41.3 cm (16.25 in)
Limestone
Mr. José Benchimol, acquired in New York prior to 1979; thence by descent.
Sculpted in sunk relief, the lunette with a pt (heaven) sign surmounted by a winged solar disc with pendant uraei, inscribed "the Behdetite" (referring to Horus of Behdet), flanked by two recumbent jackals with an offering stand between them, the register below depicting the deceased standing to the right, facing five deities including Osiris, Haesiesis, Isis, Nephthys and Anubis, the first four gods with identifying hieroglyphic inscriptions, with three rows of text below, the first two and a half in hieroglyphs, the last half line in Demotic reading: “[A Royal] Offering [Formula] to Osiris, Nefer-hotep, the Great God, and the Living One, Lady of...Hut-Sekhem, that they may give invocation-offerings of oxen and fowl, milk and wine and incense, alabaster vessels and clothing , for...the Osiris Wedja-ren-es, ...(?)...Isis(?), Great. . . . give [life?]!," preserving traces of red and yellow pigment below
