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AN EGYPTIAN RED WARE TERRACOTTA JAR
Gerzean Period, Circa 330 B.C.
With line and leaf decoration and two small loop handles, of the Naqada II period, 11cm high.
Provenance: Private collection, UK, acquired at Christie's London between 1956 and 1960.
This lot comes with a thermoluminescence test report from Oxford Authentication confirming its antiquity.
£600-800
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A SMALL EGYPTIAN ALABASTER SHALLOW BOWL
Early Dynastic Period, 1st - 2nd Dynasty, Circa 2972 - 2647 B.C.
Of slightly shouldered form with an incised lip and flat base, 7.7cm diam.
Provenance: Private collection Germany acquired prior to 1970.
Literature: For a similar example see Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie, 'The Funeral Furniture of Egypt. Stone and Metal Vases' (reprinted Warminster, 1977) pl. XXIV, no. 421.
£300-500
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NINE EGYPTIAN HARDSTONE WEIGHTS
Predynastic to New Kingdom, Circa 4000-1200 B.C.
Six weights with domed tops and sloped sides tapering down to a flattened base, 1.6cm-3.7cm diam; one spherical in shape, 3.2cm diam; and two of drop-pendant shape with flattened base, 1.6cm-6cm long, (9)
Provenance: Sold at Christie's, Antiquities, London, 12 April 2000, lot 22. German private collection, formed by the present owner's father during the 1950s and 1960s.
£500-700
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AN EGYPTIAN PREDYNASTIC FLINT IN THE FORM OF A CROCODILE
Predynastic Period, Naqada II - III, Circa 3700 - 3100 B.C.
The grey brown flint worked on one side to create a stylised crocodile with characteristic long snout and tail and four short legs, 6.6cm long.
Provenance: Collection of Geoffrey Metz, Uppsala, Sweden.
Footnotes: Animal shaped flints from the Predynastic era are extremely rare. Unlikely to have been intended for use as a tool, this object would certainly have had an apotropaic function. Feared for their ferocity, crocodiles could be kept at bay magically through the possession of such a representation of the destructive creature.
£100-200
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AN EGYPTIAN ALABASTER JAR
Old Kingdom, Circa 2686 - 2181 B.C.
The straight-sided cylindrical body is surmounted by a slightly everted rounded rim, below which a notched band is carved in raised relief giving the impression of twisted rope, 20.9cm high.
Provenance: Property from a UK private collection.
£800-1,200
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A TERRACOTTA CANOPIC JAR LID
New Kingdom, Circa 1550 - 1070 B.C.
Of human-headed Imsety, the hollow stopper has finely modelled facial features with a slight smile and wears a wig and false beard, 13cm high.
Provenance: Private Collection, Wales, since 1978. Found by chance when the owner excavated his barn in Wales for renovation, buried in the foundations, possibly from a 20th century or earlier collection.
£300-500
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AN EGYPTIAN WOOD HEADREST
Middle Kingdom, Circa 2050 - 1750 B.C.
Composed of three interlocking parts, the oblong base with rounded ends is surmounted by a vertical column with a square peg fitted into the base, the narrow curved neckpiece sits at the top of the column, 18.8cm high, 23cm wide.
Provenance: Private Collection, San Fernando Valley; Acquired Malter Auction Galleries, Encino, Calif., 15 February 2009, lot 2.
£400-600
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TWO EGYPTIAN COSMETIC ALABASTER VESSELS
Middle Kingdom, Circa 1985 B.C. - 1773 B.C.
Including a small piriform cosmetic jar, 6.4cm high; and another piriform jar, tapering to a flat base, with an everted flat rim, 7.6cm high, (2)
Provenance: Sold at Christie's, Antiquities, London, 12 April 2000, lot 15 (part). German private collection, formed by the present owner's father during the 1950s and 1960s.
£700-900
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AN EGYPTIAN ALABASTER KOHL VESSEL
Middle Kingdom, Circa 2133 - 1797 B.C.
With a broad disc rim, the body tapering down to an integral foot, 8cm high.
Provenance: Previously in sale at Christie's, Antiquities, London, 12 April 2000, lot 15 (part). German private collection, formed by the present owner's father during the 1950s and 1960s.
£500-700
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AN EGYPTIAN POTTERY JAR
A large vessel of carinated form, with straight sides surmounted by an everted lip, one side of the vessel is decorated with a single band of bright yellow vertical band, possibly New Kingdom, 26cm high.
Provenance: Property from a private collection, U.S.A.
£200-300
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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE OSTRACON FRAGMENT
New Kingdom, Circa 1550 - 1077 B.C.
With a depiction of a face in red slip, 11.5cm high.
Provenance: UK private collection.
£400-600
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE HEAD OF A SCRIBE
New Kingdom, 20th Dynasty, Circa 1189 - 1077 B.C.
Possibly depicting the famous Egyptian builder and scholar, Imhotep, with almond eyes, well-formed ears and bald head which enhances the fine patina, 1.6cm high.
Provenance: Collection of P. Mitry, acquired in the 1950s, and thence by descent to his granddaughter Randa Cruz.
£200-400
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AN EGYPTIAN ALABASTER HEAD FROM A SHABTI
New Kingdom, 18th - 19th Dynasty, Circa 1400 - 1200 B.C.
The oval face with flared nose, full straight lips, and elongated eyes with incised rims, extended cosmetic lines, and long brows, wearing a plain high-domed wig positioned low on the forehead, 4.3cm high.
Provenance: Collection of John Ward F.S.A., and thence by descent; Ex Bonham's 7th July 2016, lot 223 (part); John Ward F.S.A, (1832-1912) was an Egyptologist and author of various volumes including Pyramids and Progress. Sketches from Egypt, 1900; The Sacred Beetle, 1902; and Our Sudan. Its Pyramids and Progress, 1905.
£400-600
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE AMULET OF AMUN
Third Intermediate Period, 25th - 30th Dynasty, Circa 770 - 343 B.C.
Depicted striding, the deity wears his cylindrical headdress surmounted by twin plumes, a broad collar with a menat at the back and a shendyt-kilt, his arms by his sides with clenched fists, 10.2cm high.
Provenance: Private collection, the Netherlands.
£300-500
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THREE EGYPTIAN STYLE FRAGMENTS
Including a fragment of a limestone pharaoh wearing a bag wig; a limestone bald head with prominent ears; and a mounted fragmentary bust of a pharaoh with an unnaturally small face, wearing a long false beard and with a broad collar, 6 - 10.9cm high, (3)
Provenance: Property from a deceased collector, Morayshire, Scotland.
£100-200
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EGYPTIAN STYLE WOOD HEAD
With a characteristic enigmatic smile often depicted on m0ummy masks, the face has finely painted eyes and wears a short false beard and a full wig covered in areas of pale blue polychrome, with several dowels inserted into the surface of the face, 13.3cm wide, 12.5cm high.
Provenance: Property from a deceased collector, Morayshire, Scotland.
£100-200
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AN EGYPTIAN BASALT FIGURE OF OSIRIS
Third Intermediate Period, 25th - 26th Dynasty, Circa 700 - 600 B.C.
He wears the Atef crown and holds the crook and flail, with his arms crossed high on the chest, with hieroglyphic inscription on the dorsal column with a funerary offering formula made to Osiris Wennefer on behalf of the ka of the donor, a Follower of the Divine Adoratrice, 25.5cm high.
Provenance: From the Blair family collection, Ayrshire.
Footnotes: The Divine Adoratrice was the celibate high priestess at the temple of Amun at Thebes during the Kushite and Saite periods, Always a daughter or sister of a king, she ruled lower Egypt like a female pharaoh.
£400-600
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AN EGYPTAIN BRONZE STATUE OF OSIRIS
Third Intermediate Period, Circa 880 - 664 B.C., to Late Period,
664 - 332 B.C.
Of slender form, finely depicted holding a crook and flail with a delicately plaited beard, the atef crown with frontal uraeus, gilding remaining on the flail, face, beard and crown, with enamel inset eyes, 22cm high, 28.2cm high inc. base.
Provenance: Private collection, UK, acquired 1948, London.
£3,000-5,000
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A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN AMULETS AND BEAD
Including a glass 'ib' or heart bead amulet, 1.9cm high, a blue and white glass ear plug, 2.5cm long and an udjat eye amulet, 1.2cm long, all New Kingdom, Late 18th Dynasty, circa 1340 - 1186 B.C.; an amulet of Heh, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, circa 1350 - 1250 B.C., 4.2cm high; a steatite plaque inscribed with the god Ptah, 1.9cm high and a bull-headed scarab, both Late period, circa 650 B.C., 1.5cm long; (6)
Provenance: Ex Collection of Henry Wallis (RWS), UK.
£300-500
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THREE EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION ANIMAL AMULETS
Late Period, After 600 B.C.
Including a crocodile 4cm long; a uraeus, 2.3cm long; and a falcon-headed crocodile wearing a sun disc, 2cm long, (3)
Provenance: UK private collection.
£100-200
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THREE EGYPTIAN BES AMULETS AND A MOULD FOR AN UDJAT EYE
Late Period - Roman Period
Including a cobalt blue glass amulet of Bes; two glazed composition Bes amulets; and a glazed composition head of a grotesque; and an Egyptian clay mould for an udjat eye, used for making an udjat eye amulet, this mould would have produced an amulet with linear raised relief details above and below the cosmetic line, Third Intermediate Period - Late Period, Circa 1069 - 332 B.C. 2-4.8cm, (5)
Provenance: UK private collection.
£100-200
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FOUR EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION ANIMAL AMULETS
Third Intermediate Period, Circa 1070 - 664 B.C
Including two cat amulets; an amulet of Mut, the sky goddess, as a sow in dual-coloured faience; and a recumbent lion, possibly not ancient, 1.2cm - 2.1cm long, (4)
Provenance: UK private collection.
£200-300
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AN EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION WINGED SCARAB
Late Period, After 600 B.C.
A blue glazed composition winged scarab with the body and the wings made separately and perforated for attachment, the wings probably not matching, 13.5cm wide.
Provenance: Property from a deceased collector, Morayshire, Scotland.
£200-300
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A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN ITEMS
Including a small bronze figure of a kneeling offrant, with his arms raised in a gesture of prayer, Late Period, after 600 B.C. 5.7cm high; a model of a terracotta boat, Roman period, 14cm long; and a Roman frog lamp, circa 2nd - 3rd Century A.D., 8.5cm long; and a terracotta terminal 4cm high, (4)
Provenance: Property from a deceased collector, Morayshire, Scotland.
£200-300
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A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN SHABTIS
New Kingdom - Late Period, Circa 1550 - 332 B.C.
Including large terracotta shabti, three blue glazed composition shabtis, and three further shabtis,
4.8 - 15cm long, (7)
Provenance: UK private Collection.£100-200
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FOUR EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION SHABTIS
Late Period, Circa 664 - 332 B.C.
Including four blue glazed composition shabtis, and two shabti fragments, one of which inscribed with hieroglyphs, 4 - 10.5cm long, (6)
Provenance: UK private Collection.£200-300
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AN EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION SHABTI FOR PA-DI-NEITH
Late Period, 26th Dynasty, Circa 664 - 525 B.C.
Holding a pick, adze and seed bag, inscribed of Pa-di-Neith, the Chief Steward of the god's Adoratrice, son of Ta-di Bastet, 15cm high.Provenance: Private collection, the Netherlands.
£500-800
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AN EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION SHABTI FOR THE PRIEST HENEB-HENEB
30th Dynasty, Circa 380 - 343 B.C.
Of blue faience, holding a pick, adze and a seed bag over the left shoulder, with clearly defined hieroglyphs surviving, 13.1cm long.
Provenance: Private collection, the Netherlands.
£400-600
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE CAT HEAD
Late Period, Circa 664 - 332 B.C.
Hollow cast, with large almond shaped eyes, finely modelled nose and muzzle, with large pointed pricked-up ears creating an alert impression, mounted on a 20th Century stone base with pencilled writing referring to the previous collection, the just visible text reading "12/5/195 or 6... Ex Coll How... [illegible] Herbert", 6.2cm high.
Provenance: Private mid- 20th Century collection.
Footnotes: The cat was the animal particularly associated with the goddess Bastet who was often depicted with the head of a cat or lioness, this may be an example of a fragment of a larger figure of the goddess.
£400-600
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AN EGYPTIAN FIGURE OF OSIRIS
Late Period, Circa 664 - 332 B.C.
Mummiform, the figure stands holding the crook and flail and wearing an atef crown with a frontal uraeus, with incised detail on the side feathers and the uraeus, he also wears the false beard, A tang for attachment protrudes from his feet, 14.7cm long.
Provenance: Collection of Mr Yeates, Dublin, acquired 1878; Private Collection, UK, acquired in the 1970s.
£400-600
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF ISIS AND HORUS
Late Period, Circa 664 - 332 B.C.
Isis depicted seated in the typical manner, wearing the horned solar disc and vulture headdress, with tripartite wig, Her infant Horus rests on her lap supported by her left hand, she offers her breast to him, 11.5cm long.
Provenance: Collection of Mr Yeates, Dublin, acquired 1878; Private collection UK, acquired in the 1970s.
£300-500
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE NEITH
Saite Period, 26th Dynasty, Circa 664 - 525 B.C.
The goddess is depicted striding, wearing a close-fitting dress, broad collar and the crown of Lower Egypt, with finely modelled facial features and ears, traces of gold inlay surviving on her eyes, she holds the top of an ankh, the lower section no longer surviving, 16.3cm high.
Provenance: Private collection, the Netherlands.
£300-500
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TWO EGYPTIAN STYLE ARTEFACTS
Including a painted mask is covered in red pigment, the face has arching black eyebrows and almond shaped eyes, 26cm long; and a pottery shabti, 21cm long, (2)
Provenance: UK private collection.
£60-80
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AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED CARTONNAGE FRAGMENT
Third Intermediate Period, Circa 1070 - 664 B.C.
From the lower half of the lid of a coffin, depicting a deity on a throne with a sun disc, holding a flail and a crook, probably Osiris, back to back with another deity, also with a Heb sign, a vulture and an ankh sign, with wings above, Wings were used to divide the panels of design on coffins, 13.2cm wide.
Provenance: Collection of Mr Yeates, Dublin, acquired 1878; Private collection UK, acquired in the 1970s.
£200-300
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AN EGYPTIAN STONE HEART SCARAB
Late Period, Circa 664 - 332 B.C.
Naturalistically carved with the wing case depicted with linear incisions, and the legs and head finely carved, with an integral base surrounding the scarab, 5.7cm long.
Provenance: UK private collection.
£300-500
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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF FRAGMENT
A small fragment depicting a hand holding an ankh, 18cm wide.
Provenance: UK private collection.
Footnotes: The ankh is the Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol that represents life, deities are often depicted holding the ankh by its loop as in this case.
£300-500
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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE BUST OF A BABOON
Late Period, Circa 664 - 332 B.C.
Depicted in a squatting position, baboon is seated with the lower part of the body missing, the forepaws emerge from the fur cape to rest on the bent knees of the hind legs, a bronze tang at the top of the head for the attachment of a crown, possibly cow's horn and sun disc, with remains of the original bronze insert apparent, Possibly a representation of the god Thoth, 6cm high.
Provenance: UK private collection.
Footnotes: The god Thoth was a deity with many roles in Egyptian mythology, he was thought of as a mediator in disputes and was also the scribe to the gods, and he was associated with the invention of the sciences, philosophy and magic.
£200-300
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AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY HAND
New Kingdom, Circa 1550 - 1077 B.C.
A wood hand from the lid of a coffin, with the remains of two dowels for attachment to the main body of the coffin, 19.7cm long.
Provenance: Collection of Mr Yeates, Dublin, acquired 1878; Private collection UK, acquired in the 1970s.
£200-300
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AN EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION SHABTI
A pale blue glazed shabti of broad shouldered form, holding two picks and wearing a tripartite wig and a long false beard, 18.7cm long.
Provenance: With John A. Badman, The Monarch, Glastonbury, in the 1970s; Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2012.
£600-800
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AN EGYPTIAN AMETHYST AMULET IN THE FORM OF A SEATED CAT
Late Dynastic Period, 25th - 31st Dynasty, Circa 715 - 332 B.C.
The cat sits on its haunches on an integral base, its tail neatly curled to the right. Its front paws are held next to each other at the end of strong, broad legs, erect pointed ears crown the finely detailed face, at the top of the shoulders a striated circular suspension loop. This is a particularly large and handsome example of the type of amulet that was made using, semi-precious stones admired for their beauty and decorative qualities, 2.5cm high.
Provenance: Private collection, France, acquired 1978; Sold Christie's 8th June 2007, lot 35.
Literature: See Madeleine Page-Gasser and Andre Weise, with Thomas Schneider and Sylvia Winterhalter, Égypte, 'Moments d' éternité. Art égyptien dans les collections privées, Suisse' (Mainz, 1998) p.144, fig. 87, for a similar example in carnelian and Dr. Hans D. Schneider, Egyptisch Kunsthandwerk, Rijksmuseum van Ouden, Leiden, (Amsterdam, 1995) fig. 32, for an example in rock crystal.
£6,000-8,000
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A BRIGHT BLUE GLAZED COMPOSITION FROG
Amarna period, 18th Dynasty, Circa 1353 - 1337 BC
Of bright blue faience, with ankh symbol impressed into the base, 0.7cm long.
Provenance: Ex Collection of Elias. S David 1891 - 1969; Ex Christie's, 9th December 2015, lot 173 (part)
£100-200
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AN EGYPTIAN BLUE FRIT SYNCRETIC AMULET
Late Period, Circa 664 - 332 B.C.
With a dwarf like body and a ram head, the horns curved to the sides of the face, wearing the moon disc headdress, with long wings extending down the back, a suspension loop in the centre, 5.9cm high.
Provenance: Private collection, the Netherlands,
Literature: For further information on hybrid amulets see C. Andrews, Amulets of Ancient Egypt, 1994, pp.37 -38.
£100-200
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AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SCARAB
Naturalistically depicted with the wing case defined with linear incisions, the legs and abdomen depicted on the underside of the insect, 3.5cm long.
Provenance: UK collection, acquired 1970s.
£100-200
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TWO GLAZED COMPOSITION SHABTIS
Including a Late Dynastic pale green shabti holding a pick and an adze; a miniature green shabti; and another shabti, not ancient, 5.3 - 15.1cm long, (3)
Provenance: UK private collection.£200-300
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A GROUP OF BEAD NECKLACES AND LOOSE BEADS
Late Period, After 600 B.C.
Five restrung, composed of glazed composition cylindrical, disc and spherical beads, 72-130cm long.
Provenance: Property from a UK private collection.
£200-300
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AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY BEAD NECKLACE
Late Period, Circa 664 - 332 B.C.
Restrung, composed of tubular and some disc beads, with a modern clasp, 42.5cm long.
Provenance: UK private collection, acquired prior to 1980.
£100-200
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A GROUP OF SCARABS
Middle Kingdom - New Kingdom, Circa 2050 - 1077 B.C.
Including a scarab inscribed with a seated baboon and a nefer sign, with a cord pattern border; a scarab inscribed with a recumbent falcon-headed sphinx, two plumes, a Hes sign and a cartouche of Tutmosis III; a scarab with a gazelle, lion, and another animal; a scarab inscribed with an interlocking curved pattern and a floral pattern on the wing case; a blue glazed scarab inscribed with a mirror-image interlocking geometric pattern; and five other scarabs including one mounted onto a modern brooch, some not ancient; an inscribed rectangular amulet; and two teardrop shaped pieces of agate, 1.4 - 1.9cm long, (Qty)
£200-300
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TWO EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION AMULETS OF DEITIES
Late Period, After 600 B.C.
Including a figure of the goddess Isis holding the infant Horus 2.5cm high; and a head of Hathor with headdress, 1.6cm high, (2)
Provenance: Property from a private UK collection acquired in the 1950s and 1960s.
£80-120
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A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN HARDSTONE AMULETS
New Kingdom, Circa 1550 - 1070 B.C.
Including many different animal amulets some in steatite and feldspar, 1.1 - 1.8cm long, (Qty)
Provenance: Horatio and Patsy Melas Collection, Alexandria, Egypt, acquired before 1967. Thence by descent, moved to Switzerland and London.
£200-300
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TWO MUMMY BEAD NECKLACES
Late Period, After 600 B.C.
Restrung, formed of cylindrical blue, turquoise and green glazed composition beads 64 & 71cm long; and a necklace formed of cylindrical beads, not ancient, (3)
Provenance: Property from a UK private collection.
£100-200
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