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EGYPTIAN OLD KINGDOM LIMESTONE RELIEF OF CARPENTERS

Three workers seated, facing another male approaching and holding an object; billets of wood in the field above their heads. In the register below workers carrying baskets of papyrus and bamboo.
Cf. the scenes of carpenters in the tomb of Ti at Sakara.

Ex French collection, acquired in Paris in 1974 from Galerie Mythologie.

Later Vth Dynasty, ca 2450-2345 BC

H. 16 3/4 in. (42.5 cm.)
L. 24 3/4 in. (62.9 cm.)


Art of the Ancient World, 2007, no. 199
WPP010
$32,500


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