Lot 14
  • 14

A Limestone Round-topped Stele, Asyut, late 19th/20th Dynasty, 1200-1075 B.C.

Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • A Limestone Round-topped Stele, Asyut
  • Height 14 1/2 in. 36.8 cm.
carved in sunk relief with the owner bringing incense to the jackal deity Wepwawet standing on a sled atop a tall filleted staff, a uraeus before him and a was-scepter at his side, the offering table laden with victuals, a column of seven striding canids at left, the owner wearing a long kilt with pleated fringe and slender leaf-shaped projection in front, broad collar, and long wig with pointed lappets, two columns of inscription in the upper right area, one naming "Wepwawet of Upper Egypt, Controller of the two Lands", the other the deceased Pa-uiu (P3-wiw); remains of red pigment.

Provenance

Cairo private collection, 1950s
Jack Titelman, Georgia, inherited from his parents circa 1975

Literature

Peter Munro, "Einige Votivstelen an Wpw3wt," Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache, vol. 88, 1962, p. 50, pl. 3.2
Terence Duquesne, forthcoming catalogue of the Salakhana stelae, CP2

Catalogue Note

For a related example from the Salakhana Tomb at Asyut, see T. DuQuesne, Anubis, Wupwawet, and other Objects. Personal Worship and Official Religion in Ancient Egypt, catalogue of the exhibition at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, 2007, S10, cover illus; the tomb was excavated in 1922 by British archaeologist Gerald Avery Wainwright and was found to contain many canine mummies as well as 600 such votive stelae. On Wepwawet in general see T. DuQuesne, The Jackal Divinities of Egypt, London, 2005, pp. 390-397.