Unprovenanced New-Kingdom stelae and reliefs, possibly from Saqqara

These are extracts from the new edition of Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings, Volume 8 Part 3: Stelae and 4: Reliefs and Paintings, to be published in 2004. The codes are those of the Topographical Bibliography. The list will be enlarged as the work progresses.

803-048-220
Rectangular tomb stela with cornice, text mentioning Ptah-Sokari in Shetyt and Hathor mistress of Ra-setau, and three registers, I, double scene, Huy, Standard-bearer of the great company of Usermaetre-setepenre ( = Ramesses II) beloved of Amun, etc., before Osiris protected by the symbol of the West (on left) and before Ptah, II, children before Huy and wife Esinefer(t) seated, III, brother before Huy and mother Irynemhet seated, temp. Ramesses II, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Temp. No. 5.11.24.9.
Lowle, D. A. in SAK 9 (1981), 253-8 Taf. v fig. on 255. Text, Kitchen, Ram. Inscr. iii, 256 [xi. 29].

803-050-120 Rectangular stela with cornice and triangular summit, Pasinesut, Head of boat pilots, and wife T(ent)mehyt in adoration before Osiris, Isis and Nephthys, and below, Hesunebef, Lector priest, with Pasinesut's son and daughter before Pasinesut seated, and on jambs, three men and three women in adoration, Dyn. XIX, in Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, 1001.
Hölbl, G. Le Stele funerarie della collezione egizia (1985), 26-8 [10] Tav. x, xA; R. P[irelli] in Cantilena, R. and Rubino, P. (eds.), La Collezione egiziana del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (1989), 64-5 [11] fig. on 65 [left]. Names and titles of Pasinesut and son, Lieblein, Dict. No. 826 (orthography partly different). See Marucchi, O. in Ruesch, A. (ed.), Museo Nazionale di Napoli. Antichit&\224;. Guida (1911), 113-14 [322]; id. Naples National Museum. Excerpt of the Guide [1925], 58 [232].

803-050-122 Round-topped stela with triangular summit, Pasinesut, Head of boat pilots, in adoration before seated Osiris and standing Isis, and below, Supaankh, Lector priest, censing and libating, accompanied by wife and daughter, before seated Pasinesut and wife Te(nt)mehyt, Dyn. XIX, in Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, 1003.
Hölbl, G. Le Stele funerarie della collezione egizia (1985), 28-9 [11] Tav. xi, xiA; R. P[irelli] in Cantilena, R. and Rubino, P. (eds.), La Collezione egiziana del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (1989), 65 [12] fig. [right]. Text, Piehl, Inscr. hiéro. 1st Sér. 80-1 pl. xcvii [F]. Names and titles of Pasinesut and wife, Lieblein, Dict. No. 827. See Marucchi, O. in Ruesch, A. (ed.), Museo Nazionale di Napoli. Antichità. Guida (1911), 112 [317]; id. Naples National Museum. Excerpt of the Guide [1925], 57 [227].

804-048-050
Lower part of probably tomb jamb, Benanta, Chief physician of the Mansion of Life, kneeling in adoration before the cartouche of Ramesses III, with end of text above, sandstone, temp. Ramesses III, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 40031.
Gaballa, G. A. in JEA 59 (1973), 109-10 [1] fig. 1 pl. xxxvii [1]. Text, Kitchen, Ram. Inscr. v, 432 [210].

804-048-602
Lower part of left tomb jamb of Iny, Chief royal scribe, with section of adjoining wall with various objects, including scribe palettes, on stands, in two parts, late Dyn. XVIII or Dyn. XIX, in London, Petrie Museum, 14471. Stewart, Eg. Stelae i, 58 pl. 46 [6]; Martin, Corpus i, No. 52 pls. 19, 48.

804-053-150
Tomb reliefs, unloading boats, including man leading a prisoner in left part, late Dyn. XVIII, left part formerly in A. Gallatin and J. Brummer collns., now in Brooklyn NY, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 48.112, right part in Hildesheim, Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Pelizaeus-Museum, 2370.
Schulman, A. R. in JARCE vii (1968), 27-35 pls. i [1, 2], ii [4] (as temp. Haremhab); Martin, Corpus i, Nos. 27-8 pl. 10. Brooklyn 48.112, Capart, Documents ii, 61 pl. 66 (as temp. Amenophis IV); J. D. C[ooney], Egyptian Art in the Brooklyn Museum Collection (1952), fig. 39 (as Dyn. XVIII-XIX); id. The Hidden Tombs of Memphis (1991), ill. 125; text, James, Corpus i, 173 [426] pl. lxxxiv. Hildesheim 2370, Ippel and Roeder, Denkmäler ... Hildesheim 89 Abb. 29 (as late New Kingdom); Kayser, Äg. Altertümer 69 Abb. 50 [lower] (as late New Kingdom).

804-053-180
Tomb relief, upper part of ...enkheper, with bouquet of [probably wife] behind him, late Dyn. XVIII, formerly in A. Kann colln. and in New York, American Art Galleries, in 1927, now in Buffalo NY, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 27.12.
Academy Notes xxii [1] (Sept. 1931), 46 fig. on 26 (as a princess); Nash, S. A. (ed.), Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942 (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1979), 71 [right] fig. See The Alphonse Kann Collection, Pt. i. Exhibition and sale at the American Art Galleries ... New York, Jan. 6-8, 1927, No. 30 (as a princess).

804-053-300
Tomb relief, mourners and offerings, late Dyn. XVIII or Dyn. XIX, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 72039.

804-053-310
Tomb relief, Ptahmosi, Overseer of the royal apartments at Memphis, Dyn. XIX, formerly in the possession of Hifnawi El Shaer, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 90221.

804-053-400
Probably tomb relief mentioning grandson Nia, First prophet of the temple of Djeserkheperure-setepenre (Haremhab) son of Ptah of the flood-plain, probably temp. Haremhab, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum.
Names and titles, Legrain, Répertoire No. 333. See Allen, T. G. The Art Institute of Chicago. A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (1923), 42 n. 2; Helck, W. Materialien zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte des Neuen Reiches i (1961), 138 [3].

804-054-020
Tomb relief, a Chief lector-priest, sem-priest (only hand left) with an ox foreleg in opening-the-mouth ceremony before statue(?) of man (only upper part left), late Dyn. XVIII-XIX, in London, Petrie Museum, 14479. Stewart, Eg. Stelae i, 57 pl. 46 [1]; Martin, Corpus i, No. 23 pl. 6.

804-054-150
Tomb relief, remains of two registers, I (lower part), food offerings between feet of an offering bearer and of a person reclining on cushion, II (upper part), men in funerary procession, end of Dyn. XVIII, formerly in Paris, Hôtel Drouot, in 1993, now in Munich, Staatliche Sammlung Ägyptischer Kunst, ÄS 7127.
Hôtel Drouot Sale Cat. June 30 - July 1, 1993, No. 198 fig. (reversed); Schoske, S. in Münchner Jahrb. 3 Ser. xlvi (1995), 182-6 Abb. 5; id. Staatliche Sammlung Ägyptischer Kunst München (1995), 59 Abb. 60; Berlandini, J. in BSFÉ 134 (1995), 30-49 figs. 1, 2 (as temp. Ay to Ramesses I).

804-054-250
Tomb relief, two registers, I, Pasinesut, Head of boat pilots, censing and libating offerings, followed by wife Tentmeh(y)t and woman Mutnefert, before seated Osiris, with four Sons of Horus on lotus before him and Isis and Nephthys standing behind him, II, left, man censing and libating before seated Pasinesut and wife, right, Pasinesut and wife kneeling, with ba-bird, receiving libation from cow-headed tree goddess, probably Hathor, Dyn. XIX, in Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, 1000.
Hölbl, G. Le Stele funerarie della collezione egizia (1985), 23-6 [9] Tav. ix, ixA; R. P[irelli] in Cantilena, R. and Rubino, P. (eds.), La Collezione egiziana del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (1989), 64 [10] fig. (right part of II only). Some names and titles, Lieblein, Dict. No. 825. See Marucchi, O. in Ruesch, A. (ed.), Museo Nazionale di Napoli. Antichità . Guida (1911), 118 [334]; id. Naples National Museum. Excerpt of the Guide [1925], 59 [243].

804-054-251
Tomb relief, from left, ba bird, and woman T(ent)mehyt and husband [Pasinesut] (name not preserved), both holding <> before an altar, Dyn. XIX, in Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, 1004. (Probably from the Memphite area.)
Hölbl, G. Le Stele funerarie della collezione egizia (1985), 30 [12] Tav. xii, xiiA; R. P[irelli] in Cantilena, R. and Rubino, P. (eds.), La Collezione egiziana del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (1989), 65-6 [13] fig. on 66 [left]. See Marucchi, O. in Ruesch, A. (ed.), Museo Nazionale di Napoli. Antichità. Guida (1911), 111 [315]; id. Naples National Museum. Excerpt of the Guide [1925], 57 [225].

804-054-400
Tomb relief, left, lector-priest making libation to [a large figure of seated man], right, the back of seated man, with text in between, Dyn. XIX, in Odessa, Odessa Archaeological Museum, 52661.
Dzis-Raiko, G. A. Odesskii arkheologicheskii muzei AN USSR (1983), fig. 198; Khodzhash, S. I. and Etingof, O. E. Drevneegipetskie pamyatniki iz muzeev SSSR. Katalog vystavki (Moscow, 1991), 51 [82] fig. on 50, with further bibliography (as beginning of Dyn. XIX); Yoyotte, J. in Egyptes. Histoires & Cultures 2 (1993), fig. on 16. See Turaev, B. A. 'Opisanie Egipetskago otd"la muzeya Imperatorskago Odesskago Obshchestva Istorii i Drevnostei' in Zapiski imperatorskogo Odesskogo obshchestva istorii i drevnostei xxx (1912), 86-7 [127].

804-055-010
Tomb relief, two men in long kilts, with remains of text above, Dyn. XIX, formerly in M. Abemayor colln. and in New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, in 1976.
Sotheby Parke Bernet (New York) Sale Cat. Dec. 11, 1976, No. 233 fig.

804-055-080
Tomb relief, a man and 'his brother Raia, Scribe of the treasury of the victorious King', with table with offerings between them, Dyn. XIX, in Basel, Münzen und Medaillen A. G., in 1972, then in M. and E. Ebnöther colln. in 1998.
Werke ägyptischer Kunst [etc.] (Münzen und Medaillen A. G. Auktion 46, Basel, April 28, 1972), No. 56 fig.; A. W[iese] in Page-Gasser, M. and Wiese, A. B. Ägypten. Augenblicke der Ewigkeit (1997), 182-3 [116] fig. [right].

804-055-355
Tomb relief, [man censing and libating] (only arms with implements and a leg remain) before Apis-bull in shrine, Dyn. XIX, in New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., in 1980.
Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. (New York) Sale Cat. May 16, 1980, No. 319 fig. (as Khaemwese). 804-055-400
Tomb relief, upper part of Osiris and text mentioning 'lord of Ankhtaui', probably Dyn. XIX, in private possession in Belgium in 1991.
J.-M. K[ruchten] in Van Nijl tot Schelde Cat. 164 fig. (as from Saqqâra).

804-055-401
Tomb relief, upper part of man with arms raised in adoration, Dyn. XIX-XX, in private possession in Belgium in 1991.
N. C[herpion] in Van Nijl tot Schelde Cat. 165 fig.

804-059-050
Two djad-pillars of Nakht, Overseer of the royal apartments of the King's wife, etc., temp. Ramesses II, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Temp. Nos. 18.7.15.1, 2.

804-059-055
Tomb papyrus column with Wepwautmosi, Royal scribe of the altar of the Lord of the Two Lands, Chief steward in the temple of Ptah, etc., and wife, in adoration before Maet, late Dyn. XVIII or Dyn. XIX, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Temp. No. 26.11.24.4.
Berlandini, J. in BIFAO 82 (1982), 99 n. 3 pl. xiv [A].

(July 18, 2003)

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