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LOT 0507
Egyptian and Other Mixed Artefact Collection
2ND CENTURY B.C. AND LATER
1/8 - 3 in. (159 grams total, 3-75 mm).
Including faience, glass, marble, bronze, stucco, terracotta and wooden items such as a bangle, Byzantine trade weight, stylised coiled serpent, peg, beads, and others.
ProvenanceEx Horatio and Patsy Melas, Alexandria, Egypt, acquired before 1967; thence by descent, moved to Switzerland and London.
with Chiswick Auctions, London, UK, 11 May 2016, no.132.
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LOT 0507
Egyptian and Other Mixed Artefact Collection
Estimate £500 - 700€580 - 810 (for guidance only)$680 - 950 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£275 (EUR 319; USD 371) ‡+BP*
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Egyptian Green Glazed Faience Qebehsenuef Attachment
Late-Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Highly stylised head of the falcon god Qebehsenuef, one of the Four Sons of Horus, with incised feather decoration to the front, flat-backed, with two holes for attachment. 5.45 grams, 25 mm
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
This amulet was likely attached to a visceral package or sewn onto mummy bandages. Qebehsenuef protected the intestines. -
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Egypto-Phoenician Faience Amulet Group
4th-2nd century B.C. and laterEstimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
Comprising flat discs with perforations and a modern trussed duck with its head laid along its spine. 18.74 grams total, 15-30 mm
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Egyptian Blue Glass Inlay Collection
Late Period-Ptolemaic Period, circa 664-30 B.C.Estimate: £250 - 350 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £139
Comprising: three cartouche-shaped inlays, a djed pillar, two standing deities (possibly Isis and Horus), and a narrow, fragmentary inlay (possibly another cartouche). 8.98 grma total, 31-37 mm
From a 20th century UK collection.
