About the lot N° 308
Title : A Steatite Figure Of Pe-Shery-Aset
Size : height 9 13/16 in. 24.9 cm.Provenance : PROPERTY FROM A FRENCH PRIVATE COLLECTIONTigrane Pasha, CairoMichel Abemayor, New YorkMarianne Maspero, ParisLiterature : Daninos Pacha, Collection d'antiquités égyptienne de Tigrane Pacha d'Abro, Catalogue, Paris, 1911, p. 12, no. 118, pl. XXXVIIBernard V. Bothmer, Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, 700 B.C. to A.D. 100, catalogue of the exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, October 18th, 1960 - January 9th, 1961, Brooklyn, 1960, no. 36, pp. 43-44, pl. 33, figs. 78-79Herman de Meulenaere, Les stèles de Nag el-Hassaïa, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Institut, Abteilung Kairo, vol. 25, 1969, p. 95Enrichetta Leospo, Fabrizia Fantini, and Guido Rossi, Io vivrò per sempre. Storia di un Sacerdote nell'antico Egitto. Guida alla Mostra, catalogue of the exhibition at the Museo di Archeologia Ligure, April 1st - June 6th, 1999, Genoa, 1999, pp. 31-33, illus.Valeria Cortese and Guido Rossi, Pasherienaset: un Egizio il suo ka e la statua perduta, Archeologia Viva, no. 93 n.s., May-June 2002, p. 83, illus.Notes : The finely carved inscription also mentions Pe-shery-aset's father, First Prophet of Horus of Edfu, Servant of the Golden One, Pedy-a-behdet, and grandfather, Prophet of Amun at Karnak, First Prophet of Horus of Edfu, Pathenef. According to Bernard Bothmer (op. cit., pp. 43-44), several other inscriptions mention Pe-shery-aset's family and seem to indicate that it was based in Edfu, where the statuette probably also originates. He also points out that such statues, intended for the tomb of the owner, are rare in the Late Period. The mummy and coffin of Pe-shery-aset are in the Museo Civico di Archeologia Ligure in Genoa (see Leospo et al, op. cit.).Sotheby's, auctioneer, New York, US
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Sale title : Egyptian, Classical, and Western Asiatic Antiquities
Sale date : 09 Dec 2004
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