An Egyptian Sandstone Stele Fragment of Amenhotep I

New Kingdom, 19th-20th Dynasty, 1307-1070 B.C.

Height 7 1/2 x width 9 inches.

Property from an Illinois Private Collection

Provenance:

Hugh Stanley Russell Collection, 1950's-1970's.

Reputed to have been at the Ashmolean Museum in 1967.

(Written on the side edge of the piece the number 11.2019 and an old label stating Egypt Exploration Fund.)

Note:

Inscribed with large lotus head and a cartouche for Amenhotep above. On the right the head of a king wearing the Blue Crown, carrying a combined crook and flail, another cartouche above for "God's wife Ahmes-Nefertari"

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Pre-Columbian, Classical Antiquities, and Ethnographic Art

An Egyptian Sandstone Stele Fragment of Amenhotep I

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