About the lot N° 3
Title : An Egyptian Lapis Lazuli Situla, 18Th/19Th Dynasty, 1540-1190 B.C.
Size : Height 2 in. 5.1 cmProvenance : acquired by the current owner from Jabbar in Gaza in 1980Notes : For an alabaster situla very close in form cf. S. D’Auria, P.
Lacovara, and C.H. Roehrig, Mummies & Magic. The Funerary Arts of
Ancient Egypt, Boston, 1988, no. 78. An amethystine quartz situla,
related in form and dated to circa 610 B.C., was found in the tomb of
Queen Tabiry at El-Kurru in Nubia, see N. Thomas, The American Discovery
of Ancient Egypt, Los Angeles, 1995, p. 197, no. 97 (Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, inv. no. 21.306).Sotheby's, auctioneer
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Sale title : Egyptian, Classical, and Western Asiatic Antiquities
Sale date : 05 Jun 2013
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