Lot 89
  • 89

An Egyptian Basalt Bust of Djed-Hor-Iuf-Ankh, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C.

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • An Egyptian Basalt Bust of Djed-Hor-Iuf-Ankh
  • BASALT
  • Height 28 cm.
from a kneeling figure, wearing a kilt with belt and rounded shoulder-length wig , his face with contoured eyebrows, the back pillar with two columns of inscription "A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris Foremost of the West(?), Lord of Abydos(?): Invocation-Offerings of...and milk...[Anubis, Lord of the] Sacred [Land (i.e. cemetery)], for(?) the Venerated One before...Djed-Hor-iuf-ankh son of(?) the wab-priest(?) of Neith...".

Provenance

Auktion 555, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 24-27 November 1976, lot 1946. 
German private collection (Christie's, New York, June 5th, 2014, no. 14, illus.)
acquired by the current owner at the above sale