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LOT 0685
Egyptian Multi-Coloured Glass Inlay Collection
PTOLEMAIC-ROMAN PERIOD, 332 B.C.-323 A.D.
3/8 - 1 1/2 in. (29 grams total, 8-39 mm).
Mixed group of polychrome inlay strips in various sizes. [55]
ProvenanceEx Japanese gallery, 1970s.
From a London gallery collection, 2000s.
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LOT 0685
Egyptian Multi-Coloured Glass Inlay Collection
Estimate £500 - 700€580 - 810 (for guidance only)$680 - 950 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£250 (EUR 290; USD 338) +BP*
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Egyptian Terracotta Funerary Cone of Montuemhat
Late Period, 25th-26th Dynasty, circa 700-650 B.C.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
The front part of a large tapering funerary cone, with the circular flat end impressed with four horizontal lines of hieroglyphic text, reading: "Fourth prophet of Amun, mayor of the city Montuemhat, true of voice, son of the prophet of Amun, scribe of the offering-table in the house of Amun, mayor of the city Nesptah, true of voice". 380 grams, 86 mm wide
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.
Montuemhat, Mayor of Thebes and Governor of Upper Egypt, was possibly the most powerful official in southern Egypt of his era. He built one of the largest and most lavishly decorated non-royal tombs known (TT34), which still dominates the Asasif landscape today. -
Egyptian Tubular Faience Mummy Bead String
Late Period-Ptolemaic Period, circa 664-30 B.C.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising mostly green-glazed tubular beads, restrung. 2.63 grams, 36 cm
Excavated from Egypt in 1914. From the private collection of Mr David Sams and his wife Elizabeth Kate Sams, gentry and amateur archaeologists who travelled to Egypt in 1914 with their daughter Ethel. Mr Sams and his wife led digging expeditions from which these items come from the family estate of Mr and Mrs Sams, by direct descent to their granddaughter. -
Phoenician Glass Amuletic Bead Group
Mid 1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Including a grotesque mask, a squatting figure and a scorpion. 5.32 grams total, 14-16 mm
From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.
