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LOT 0455
Egyptian Painted Limestone Fragment of a Wedjat Eye
26TH DYNASTY, 664-525 B.C.
3 3/8 in. (139 grams total, fragment: 86 mm wide).
Irregular limestone fragment with a finely incised wedjat motif; traces of blue and coral-pink pigment; mounted on a custom-made stand. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
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LOT 0455
Egyptian Painted Limestone Fragment of a Wedjat Eye
Estimate £300 - 400€350 - 460 (for guidance only)$410 - 540 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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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. -
Egyptian Scarab Group
Circa 2nd-1st century B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Comprising: a lapis lazuli scarab in a gold funda from a ring; a glazed composition bead with a high-relief sleeping monkey motif on the obverse with a figurative and hieroglyphic legend on the reverse. 2.86 grams total, 12-17 mm
Private collection of Kal Noselson, New York, acquired between 1976 and the late 1990s; thence by descent. -
Egyptian Terracotta Funerary Cone of Ineni
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, circa 1514-1458 B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Large portion of a tapering cone with the circular flat end impressed with four horizontal lines of hieroglyphic text reading: 'Count, overseer of the (double) granary of Amun, overseer of all the sealed things in the domain of Amun, scribe, Inen(i), true of voice'. 755 grams, 13.8 cm
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.
Ineni enjoyed a long and highly successful career, serving under five pharaohs (Amenhotep I, Thutmosis I, Thutmosis II, Hatshepsut, and Thutmosis III). His large rock-cut tomb (TT 81) is at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Thebes.
