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LOT 0618
Egyptian Faience Mummy Bead Bracelet
LATE PERIOD-PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 664-30 B.C.
11 3/8 in. (3 grams, 29 cm).
Composed of green and blue glazed oblate beads, restrung. [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 0618
Egyptian Faience Mummy Bead Bracelet
Estimate £40 - 60€46 - 70 (for guidance only)$54 - 81 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Phoenician Marbled Grey Stone Scarab with Bird
Late 1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Plano-convex in section, with hatched segmentation on the upper face; underside with bird in flight, with radiating strokes to the border; edge chipped; supplied with an impression. 4.11 grams, 17 mm
From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s. -
Egyptian Bronze Shabti for General Wendjebauendjed
Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, circa 1047-1001 B.C.Estimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Mummiform figure wearing a plain tripartite wig, with crossed arms and prominently modelled hands, and a vertical panel of hieroglyphs on the front reading: 'The Osiris, the General Wendjebauendjed, true of voice'. 68.9 grams, 78 mm
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
Shabtis made of bronze are uncommon. Ramesses II and Ramesses III were the first pharaohs to use bronze shabtis, a practice Pharaoh Psusennes I reestablished in the 21st Dynasty. In addition to Psusennes I, bronze shabtis were produced for Queen Mutnedjemet, his sister and wife, and for General Wendjebauendjed, who was buried in the same royal hypogeum at Tanis. The exact number of shabtis provided for the general remains unknown, though he had at least twenty mummiform and one overseer shabti in bronze, and many more in faience. -
Egyptian Coptic Tunic Textile Fragment with Segmenta Decorated with Crosses
Circa 6th-7th century A.D.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising a long element from a tunic, possibly a sleeve from a child’s garment, in brown wool with a red edge, a pair of segmenta at both sides in purple and yellow, ornamented with crosses inside lozenges and spirals. 27 grams, 30.5 cm
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016.
This decorative part of a tunic is possibly a part of the sleeve of a child's garment, and the crosses reiterate the fact that these fabrics were produced in a by then heavily Christianised Roman Empire.
