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LOT 0453
Egyptian Khufu Pyramid Mastabas Offering Pot
OLD KINGDOM, 4TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 2570-2500 B.C.
4 5/8 in. (214 grams, 11.7 cm).
A coarse pottery footed offering dish with inverted rim and conical body, likely used for cereals; from a mastaba in the pyramid field associated with Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramid. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom an old UK collection.
From the private collection of Alf Baxendale (1941-2016) part 2, keen Egyptologist, member of the Egyptology Society, trustee of the Amarna Trust; thence by descent.
Accompanied by an identification display card.
Accompanied by a copy of his obituary published in Horizon, The Amarna Project and Amarna Trust newsletter, Issue 18, 2017, p.21, by Barry John Kemp, CBE, FBA, Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge and directing excavations at Amarna in Egypt.
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A limestone fragment of provincial workmanship, displaying a partial column of titular naming hieroglyphs, possibly royal; repaired. 1.5 kg, 19 cm
London collection, acquired on the art market in the 1980s. From the collection of a West London, UK, gentleman. -
Egyptian Beaded Mummy Face Mask
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £187
A restrung panel of small glazed composition beads in various colours representing a mummy face mask with false beard. 44 grams, 13 cm wide
Acquired 1990s. Ex Mariaud des Serres, Paris, France.
The practice of providing a bead mask as additional protection for the face of the mummy developed in the Late Period. The green beads used as the principal colour in the creation of the stylised face symbolise regeneration and re-birth. An example discovered at Esna in Upper Egypt and still attached to the face of a mummy is on display in the World Museum Liverpool (accession number 7.6.20.60). -
Egyptian Blue Glazed Ra Amulet
Late New Kingdom, circa 1550-1070 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,690
A blue glazed composition figure of the advancing god Ra (possibly Ra-Horakhty), falcon-headed and wearing a sun disc, set on an integral rectangular base, left leg positioned in front of the right, arms held straight by his sides, wearing a wig and kilt; tapering pillar with suspension loop behind solar disc; repaired. 18.4 grams, 87 mm high
Acquired from Dr Jan Beekmans, circa 1982. UK private collection.
In ancient Egypt, Ra sat as the king of all the deities and the father of all creation, the god who could not only govern the sun, but who transformed himself into the sun. He was associated with the falcon, hence he is typically portrayed as a human with a falcon's head. The major cultic centre for Ra was the ancient city Iwnw, known as Heliopolis to the Greeks, which today lies under modern Cairo. The ancient Egyptians were an agricultural society inhabiting a desert; the sun (and thus Ra) was an integral component of their world view. Placed on the chest of the deceased, this amulet offered the wearer the chance of eternal renewal each morning with the sun.
