EX-VOTO DEDICATED TO MERESGER IN LIMESTONE Egyptian art, New Kingdom, 19th dynasty, 1295 -1186 BC Fragmentary quadrangular ostracon engraved in slight bas-relief with a scene depicting Ramose (?), servant of Deir el-Medineh, dressed in a loincloth with apron, his hands raised in adoration before his protective and tutelary goddess, Meretsger or Meresger, in the form of an ophiocephalic lioness. The lioness is shown reclining on a naos, her tail curled over her rump. She is wearing a tripartite wig topped with the hathoric crown, made up of a mortar and cow's horns encircling a solar disc with two ostrich feathers. The goddess receives a biconical offering table on which various dishes are laid out. In the field, five columns of hieroglyphic inscriptions give the name of the dedicator. Missing. Size: 18.8 x 13.3 cm Published by CARDIN Christine, Memnonia XXIX-2018 : "Ex-voto dedicated to Meresger from the Alexandre Varille collection", pp. 93-99 and pl. XIII Provenance: Former collection of the Egyptologist Alexandre Varille (1909-1951) His sale, Me Puyol, Auch-en-Gascogne, 5 November 1994: n°47 Private collection of Madame C. This work, sold under the gavel of Maître Puyol and appraised by Jean Roudillon in 1994, was part of the antiquities collection of the Egyptologist Alexandre Varille (1909-1951), inherited and dispersed by his brother Jean Varille. From the same sale, the Musée du Louvre acquired lot 46 in 1995, a fragment of a wall depicting a female profile (Inv. E27710). Our ostracon fragment was almost certainly acquired from an antiquities dealer in Luxor when Alexandre Varille was working under the direction of Bernard Bruyère on the Deir el-Medineh site in 1931-1932. An Egyptian limestone ex-voto to Meretseger, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, 1295 -1186 B.C. This work, sold under the hammer of Maître Puyol and expertised by Jean Roudillon in 1994, was part of the antiquities collection of the Egyptologist Alexandre Varille (1909-1951), inherited and dispersed by his brother Jean Varille. From the same sale, the Musée du Louvre acquired lot 46 in 1995, a fragment of a wall depicting a female profile (Inv. E27710). Our ostracon fragment was almost certainly acquired from an antiquities dealer in Luxor when Alexandre Varille was working under the direction of Bernard Bruyère on the Deir el-Medineh site in 1931-1932. This work, sold under the hammer of Maître Puyol and appraised by Jean Roudillon in 1994, was part of the antiquities collection of the Egyptologist Alexandre Varille (1909-1951), inherited and dispersed by his brother Jean Varille. From the same sale, the Musée du Louvre acquired lot 46 in 1995, a fragment of a wall depicting a female profile (Inv. E27710). Our ostracon fragment was almost certainly acquired from an antiquities dealer in Luxor when Alexandre Varille was working under the direction of Bernard Bruyère on the Deir el-Medineh site in 1931-1932.