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LOT 0512
Egyptian Mixed Scarab Collection
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C. AND LATER
5/8 - 1 1/8 in. (22.75 grams total, 15-28 mm).
Comprising three faience scarabs with detailed bodies and decorated undersides, featuring: a scroll border with central design consisting of a nefer, neb, Red Crown, and a striding human figure holding a flail; a scroll border with a central figure of a bowman with a Red Crown beneath; a seated figure before an offering table(?); an oval scaraboid featuring a central sun disc with opposed nefer signs flanked by hatched panels; and a plain carnelian scarab. [5]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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LOT 0512
Egyptian Mixed Scarab Collection
Estimate £400 - 600€460 - 700 (for guidance only)$540 - 810 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£200 (EUR 232; USD 270) +BP*
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Egyptian Terracotta Funerary Cone of Amenhotep, Called Huy
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, mid-to-late 14th century B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Sizeable portion of a funerary cone with a tapering profile and a circular flat end impressed with a partial stamp, which, when complete with five columns of text, would read: 'Honoured by Osiris, hereditary prince, Amenhotep, called Huy, the famous person in the entire land, born of the dignitary Hepu.' 174 grams, 61 mm
Acquired from Abdoul Rassoul on the West Bank at Luxor, 1974-1980 when a guest lecturer. From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
Although funerary cones of Amenhotep have circulated for a long time, his tomb was documented only in 1996 by the German Egyptologist Friederike Kampp-Seyfried (tomb 396), primarily on the basis of the number of funerary cones found at the site. In this example, the cone appears to have been made too small to accommodate the full stamp design. -
Egyptian Alabaster Cylindrical Storage Vessel
Early Dynastic Period, 5th-6th Dynasty, circa 2300-2100 B.C.Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Tubular type with everted rounded rim; old dealer's note 'Alabaster cylindrical storage vessel, semi-translucent and with veining. Small abrasion to outturned flattened rim. Probably alabaster quarries at Hatnub, to north of el-Amarna. Egypt, early Dynastic, Vth-VIth Dynasties, c.2300-2100 BC. Bought Spitalfields Market, Thursday 12/1/19'. 508 grams, 11.8 cm
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s. -
Egyptian Steatite Scarab for Pharaoh Amenhotep III
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, circa 1386-1349 B.C.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Ellipsoid in plan with carapace and leg detailing; on the underside, a cartouche of Amenhotep III and possible epithet to the side, nb-mꜢꜤt-RꜤ (s)mn mnw ('Neb-maat-Re, establisher of monuments'). 2.54 grams, 17 mm
with a privately curated collection, 1980s-early 2000s. From the private collection and estate of Christine Simons (1943-2025), West Midlands, UK. Accompanied by a copy of a two page archival record and provenance report.
