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LOT 0751
Egyptian Biconical Faience Mummy Bead String
NEW KINGDOM-LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1550-332 B.C.
6 1/4 in. (4.65 grams, 16 cm).
Restrung group of dark brown biconical beads. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceExcavated from Egypt in 1914.
From the private collection of Mr David Sams and his wife Elizabeth Kate Sams, gentry and amateur archaeologists who travelled to Egypt in 1914 with their daughter Ethel. Mr Sams and his wife led digging expeditions from which these items come from the family estate of Mr and Mrs Sams, by direct descent to their granddaughter.
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LOT 0751
Egyptian Biconical Faience Mummy Bead String
Estimate £30 - 40€35 - 46 (for guidance only)$41 - 54 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Egyptian Terracotta Funerary Cone of Amenhotep
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, 15th-14th century B.C.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Conical, with three horizontal lines of hieroglyphic text to the end, reading: 'Scribe of reckoning barley of Amun, Amenhotep, true of voice'; tip absent. 350 grams, 78 mm wide
Acquired from Abdoul Rassoul on the West Bank at Luxor, 1974-1980 when a guest lecturer. From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
Although funerary cones of Amenhotep have been in circulation for a long time, his tomb was documented only in 1996 by Friederike Kampp-Seyfried, who assigned it the number 336. -
Egyptian Artefact Collection
Late Period-Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 B.C.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising a standing figure of Sekhmet, featuring a plain dorsal pillar with an integral suspension hole, lower legs missing; two hawk-headed Qebehsenuef, Sons of Horus amulets; steatite scarab with base decorated with a cartouche of Thutmose III and a Bes figure flanked by wadj signs 18.01 grams total, 16-53 mm
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s. -
Egyptian Faience Earrings on Modern Mounts
Late-Ptolemaic Period, circa 664-30 B.C.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Each composed of two groups of faience disc beads separated by a longer tubular bead with a modern gold wire fitting. 0.85 grams total, 43 mm each
Ex Ancient Art shop, Windsor, UK, 1990s.
