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LOT 0012
Egyptian Flint Tool Collection
PRE-DYNASTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH MILLENNIUM B.C. OR LATER
2 3/8 - 5 1/4 in. (165 grams total, 6.2-13.5 mm).
Including piriform scraper tool, single-edged knife with old label 'Gull's wing blade, Egypt', curved blade with old label 'Comma-shaped knife, Egypt', sickle blade and other items with accompanying collector's record card on reverse of a printed invitation to a garden party at Carisbrooke 4th July 1940. [6]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of Sydney Horne, 1920s-1940s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Cf. Aufrère, S., Collections des Musées départementaux de Seine-Maritime, Rouen, 1987, pp.188-190, for comparable examples.
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Advancing on a rectangular base, wearing a kilt and shuti, a two-feather adornment, for the crown. 14.6 grams, 63 mm
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Egyptian Faience Mummy Beadwork Mask
Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £676
A netted beadwork panel of annular and tubular glazed composition beads depicting a mummy face mask with a false beard, a scarab with extended wings below, and beneath the 'Four Sons of Horus’, Hapy, Imsety, Qebehsenuef, and Duamutef, joined together with areas of open netting of tubular examples; restrung with some later beads. 145 grams, 32 cm
Mariaud de Serres, Paris, 1990s. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
The Four Sons of Horus were deities responsible for protecting the deceased's internal organs. The human-headed Imsety protected the liver, the baboon-headed Hapy protected the lungs, the jackal-headed Duamutef protected the stomach, and the falcon-headed Qebehsenuef protected the intestines. These internal organs were often placed in canopic jars with the head of the respective Son of Horus. -
Egyptian Flint Tool Collection
Pre-Dynastic Period, circa 4th millennium B.C. or laterSold for (Inc. bp): £1,170
Including piriform scraper tool, single-edged knife with old label 'Gull's wing blade, Egypt', curved blade with old label 'Comma-shaped knife, Egypt', sickle blade and other items with accompanying collector's record card on reverse of a printed invitation to a garden party at Carisbrooke 4th July 1940. 165 grams total, 6.2-13.5 mm
From the private collection of Sydney Horne, 1920s-1940s. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
