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LOT 0406
Egyptian Glass Bead Necklace with Large Sekhmet Faience Amulet
LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.
17 1/4 in. (26 grams, 44 cm, amulet: 50 mm).
Restrung group of polyhedral and tubular beads in fusiform, biconvex, tubular and other types; triangular dangles and pendant of cat-headed Sekhmet.
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
Literature
Cf. Daressy, G., Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire N° 38001-39384 Statues de divinités, Cairo, 1906, p. 153 (inv. no. 38586), pl. XXXII, for a similar figurine.
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LOT 0406
Egyptian Glass Bead Necklace with Large Sekhmet Faience Amulet
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,170
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