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LOT 0512
Egyptian Predynastic Flint Pocket Knife
NAQADA II PERIOD, 3500-3100 B.C.
2 3/4 in. (19.80 grams, 72 mm).
Slightly curved blade with broad flake forming cutting edge.
ProvenanceEx Armand Trampitsch, Monte Carlo, 1990s.
Private collection, Europe.
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Egyptian Faience Amulet of Nefertum
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
In a striding pose with arms at the sides, sporting a black coloured tripartite wig surmounted by the god's distinctive headdress consisting of a lotus flower with two plumes on top; mounted on a display stand. 10.66 grams total, 50 mm including stand
Ex H Norri collection, Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire, UK, 1980s-1990s. -
Egyptian Faience Amulet Collection
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £450 - 650 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £225
Comprising: an amuletic bead consisting of a row of seven Taweret figures on a rectangular base, pierced longitudinally; a seated ibis before a diminutive figure of Maat on a tongue-shaped base; a cippus amulet composed of the figure of Pataikos standing on two crocodiles, with two hawks perched on his shoulders, a scarab on his head, flanked by the figures of Isis and Nephthys, and on the back, a winged goddess standing on the crocodiles' tails. 6.5 grams total, 16-30 mm
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
Egyptian Faience Amulet Group
New Kingdom-Ptolemaic Period, 1550-30 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Comprising a large standing Bes statuette on a rectangular base and a smaller Bes pierced for suspension; four scarabs with detailing to the upper face and incised signs and motifs on the underside; a tear-shaped bunch of grapes with a broken suspension loop; a lozenge-shaped pierced for suspension. 11 grams total, 9-38 mm
From the Walter Thomas Gaze Cooper (1895-1980) collection; thence by descent.
