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LOT 0596
Egyptian Hardstone Fly Amulet
LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.
3/8 in. (0.37 grams, 11 mm).
With stylised detailing to the body and head, longitudinally pierced for suspension. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceLondon gentleman's collection by descent 1980s.
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LOT 0596
Egyptian Hardstone Fly Amulet
Estimate £80 - 100€93 - 116 (for guidance only)$108 - 135 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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'Saqqara' Egyptian Stone Age Knapped Boring Tool
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Triangular in plan with flat butt; inked 'Step Pyramid Sakkara' findspot. 90 grams, 83 mm
Found near the Step Pyramid, Saqqara, Egypt. Acquired from Sotheby's, 16 June 1959 (part), £4.10. From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s. Accompanied by a copy of an old handwritten identification card written by Peter Clayton. -
Egyptian Mummy Bead Winged Scarab and Four Sons of Horus
Late Period-Ptolemaic Period, circa 664-30 B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Comprising a beaded winged scarab with the Four Sons of Horus beneath. 24.2 grams, 10.5 cm
Ex Art Shop Windsor, 1990s. From a private UK collection.
Winged scarabs were often used as funerary amulets and were believed to symbolise the deceased's rebirth and regeneration. The Four Sons of Horus were deities who safeguarded the deceased's internal organs. The human-headed Imsety protected the liver, the baboon-headed Hapy the lungs, the jackal-headed Duamutef the stomach, and the falcon-headed Qebehsenuef the intestines. -
Egyptian Cartonnage Section with Eye and Wing
Third Intermediate Period, circa 1069-860 B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
Sub-rectangular in plan with irregular and fragmented edge; prepared plaster surface featuring a line-bordered column with four cursive hieroglyphs naming Behedet (bḥdt); a section of finely painted outstretched wing with feather detailing to lower edge in red and blue; below, a wedjat eye in black with red medial band; fabric back to reverse. 48 grams, 17 cm
Formerly from an old collection of a Wiltshire, UK, collector, acquired before 1980. Property of a private collector, West London, UK. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
This fragment most likely originates from the lower chest section of a so-called anthropoid 'yellow coffin' from the Third Intermediate Period. The wing belongs to a protective deity; as Behedet is a name given to several locations (Edfu, Tell el-Balamun, and Lepidotonpolis) associated with Horus, it seems probable that the wing belongs to the falcon form of this god.
