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LOT 0477
Egyptian Body of Anubis Glass Inlay
LATE PERIOD-PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.
3 3/4 in. (110 grams, 96 mm).
With gently curved obverse and flat reverse, section of an inlay depicting Anubis, with thick neck and beginning of extended foreleg. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the French art market, 1980s.
with Bonhams, London, 13 April 2011, lot 21.
Accompanied by copies of the relevant Bonhams catalogue pages.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Cf. Smith, S., ‘A Glass Figure of Anubis,’ The British Museum Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Mar., 1936), pp. 118-119 and pl. XXXII, no. I, for a complete example in black glass.
FootnotesThis coloured glass inlay depicts Anubis, the jackal-headed god of mummification and protector of the dead. Likely part of a coffin or shrine, it demonstrates the use of glass to imitate precious materials in elite funerary art. The figure’s profile and predominantly black colour evoke Anubis’s role in preservation and the afterlife.
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