An Egyptian Polychrome Limestone Stela, 1st Intermediate Period/11th Dynasty, 2180-1938 B.C., probably from Naga ed-Deir

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Property from the Estate of Paul and Marianne Steiner

An Egyptian Polychrome Limestone Stela

1st Intermediate Period/11th Dynasty, 2180-1938 B.C., probably from Naga ed-Deir

carved in sunk relief with the owners Inheret-Shema , “the Sole Companion, and Overseer of the Black Cattle in Shayt”, and his wife “whom he loves, the Sole Ornament, Prophetess of Hathor, Set-net-Inheret”, the husband holding a stave and walking stick, and wearing a leopard-skin cloak and collar, offerings placed before him, his wife wearing a long close-fitting dress, broad collar, and tripartite wig, two lines of inscription above, three columns at right.

62.2 x 53.3 cm.

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Ray Winfield Smith Collection, New Hampshire (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, November 20th-21st, 1975, no. 362, illus.)

acquired by the current owners at the above sale

Published

Henry Fischer, “Three Stelae from Naga ed-Dier” in Studies in Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Sudan; Essays in Honor of Dows Dunham on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday, June 1, 1980, Boston, 1981, pp.58-61, figs. 1and 2

Edward Brovarski, Naga ed-Deir in the First Intermediate Period, Atlanta, 2018, pp. 296 (Table 11.3, Polychrome group stelae) and 313

For the site of Naga ed-Deir in Upper Egypt, and limestone stelas characteristic of the site and similar to the present example, see Edward Brovarski, Naga ed-Deir in the First Intermediate Period, Atlanta, 2018. Also see Dows Dunham, Naga-ed-Deir Stelae, Boston, 1937.