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LOT 0482
Egyptian Faience Scarab
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
3/4 in. (0.89 grams, 18 mm).
Anatomical detailing on the head and legs, with the underside featuring sedge plant (swt), ankh, and nefer symbols. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection, 1990s-early 2000s.
LiteratureCf. Ben-Tor, D., Scarabs, Chronology, and Interconnections: Egypt and Palestine in the Second Intermediate Period, Fribourg/Göttingen, 2007, pl. 10, nos. 3, 6-8, 12, for scarab designs incorporating the central horizontal bar with sedge plant symbols and other signs.
FootnotesScarabs featuring this design arrangement have been found in numerous sites in Palestine and were inspired by Middle Kingdom prototypes.
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LOT 0482
Egyptian Faience Scarab
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
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Egyptian Polychrome Wooden Sokar Falcon
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Bids: 4 | Current Bid: £20
Statuette depicting the couchant falcon god Sokar with wings folded along the sides of the body; chest, wings, and legs with painted details; inked legend on the underside reading 'Ex George Wathen / 1893 / 12'. 16 grams, 71 mm
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Egyptian Alabaster and Glass Eye Pair
Late-Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 B.C.Estimate: £800 - 1,000 (+bp*)
Bids: 3 | Current Bid: £720
The sclera white alabaster stone and the iris black glass. 15.33 grams, 31mm
From a North American gentleman's collection, 1990s.
Egyptian coffin eye inlays were both decorative and symbolic, intended to make the coffin appear lifelike and assist the deceased in the afterlife. Typically, they featured a white sclera (glass, travertine, alabaster or quartz), a dark iris (glass or often obsidian), and sometimes red paint at the inner corner. The eyes were often set in bronze or copper frames, occasionally with faience or bronze eyebrows. -
Egyptian Faience Mummy Bead Mask
Late Period-Ptolemaic Period, circa 664-30 B.C.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Bids: 2 | Current Bid: £270
Openwork beaded panel depicting a mummy mask with tripartite beard, a winged scarab below with the Four Sons of Horus, Hapy, Imsety, Qebehsenuef, and Duamutef below; restrung. 40.7 grams, 22 cm
From the collection of Mariaud de Serres, Paris, France, 1980s-1990s. Accompanied by a previously illustrated catalogue card with provenance.
