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An Egyptian Terracotta Funerary Cone for The Chief Treasurer Min

Currency:USD Category:Antiquities / Egyptian Start Price:700.00 USD Estimated At:700.00 - 1,295.00 USD
An Egyptian Terracotta Funerary Cone  for The Chief Treasurer Min

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Auction Date:2012 Jul 13 @ 10:00 (UTC-6 : CST/MDT)
Location:P.O. Box 714, Erie, Colorado, 80516, United States
New Kingdom to XXVth Dynasty, Ca. 1500 to 600 BC. Long tapered clay cone containing a circular face impressed with four registers of hieroglyphic text that reads; ‘The venerated one in the presence of Osiris, the hereditary prince, count and chief Treasurer, Min’. Funerary cones, representing the ends of chapel roof support beams, were traditionally inserted in rows (their flat ends facing outward) above the mud brick entrances of the superstructures of non-royal tombs in Thebes. 3-1/8 4 in. x 6-5/8in Long. Tip gone.

Cp; Davies &. Macadam (ed.) A Corpus of Inscribed Egyptian Funerary Cones, no. 499 (Oxford 1957)

Provenance: Ex Private collection of the late Dr Ulrich Muller, Switzerland; acquired between 1968 & 1978.

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