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LOT 0446
Egyptian Green Glass Winged Goddess Pectoral
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 300-30 B.C.
2 1/8 in. (15.3 grams, 54 mm).
A fragmentary rectangular-section figure of a kneeling goddess with outstretched wings; accurate detailing to the goddess, wearing a tripartite wig with a seshed headband tied at the back, a menat broad collar and a tightly wrapped sheath held up by two straps leaving the breasts exposed, the dress decorated with a lozenge pattern possibly representing beadwork.
ProvenanceSwiss private collection, 1970s.
Galerie Nefer, Zurich, early 1990s.
with Christie's New York, 9 December 2008, no.39.
Accompanied by copies of the relevant Christie's catalogue pages.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12843-241338.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Specimens of this kind of amulet are preserved in several museums around the world; e.g. faience winged goddess made in three pieces from Deir el-Medineh, dating to the Ramesside Period, preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York (Accession number 1974.192); faience winged goddess, dating to the Late New Kingdom or the Third Intermediate Period, preserved in the Met of New York (accession number 26.7.982a–c); see Corteggiani, J.-P., L'Égypte ancienne et ses dieux, Fayard, Paris, 2007.
FootnotesAlthough it is not possible to spot holes in the upper and lower edges, this figure was probably a pectoral or chest ornament with an apotropaic function that would have been attached to the wrapping of the mummy.
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