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LOT 0468
Egyptian Seated Cat Amulet
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 332-30 B.C.
5/8 in. (1.82 grams, 16 mm).
A carved carnelian amuletic pendant of the cat goddess Bastet, sitting on a rectangular base, suspension loop behind the shoulders. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1980s.
Private collection of L.H., Staffordshire, UK.
Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher.
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Egyptian Bead Necklace with Scarab
Late Period, 664-525 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
A restrung necklace of composition beads of various types with polychrome glazes, together with a central scarab with seated deities to the base. 9.72 grams, 58 cm long
Ex early 20th century French collection. -
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Egyptian Faience Scaraboid of Seti I and Thutmose III
New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, 1314-1304 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,040
A blue glazed bifacial scaraboid; one side bearing the cartouche of Thutmose III and the legend “Enduring image of Re” and the other side Seti I’s throne name Men-Maat-Re (meaning “Eternal is the Justice of Re”) with other signs for an epithet that perhaps reads as “truly praised (of Re)”; pierced for suspension. 4.11 grams, 23 mm
From 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.
Seti I's reign saw the production of many scarabs, scaraboids and plaques bearing his name as well as that of Thutmose III - who was considered a great warrior king. -
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Egyptian Bronze Oxyrhynchus Fish Figure
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £702
A bronze votive oxyrhynchus fish on a sledge base; the fish with inlaid eyes (now missing), hatched dorsal fin, hatched and engraved usekh collar, disc and horned crown fronted by sacred uraeus; suspension loop behind. 163 grams, 85 mm wide
Acquired 1980s. Private collection of L.H., Staffordshire, UK. Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher.
The oxyrhynchus fish was sacred to the goddess Hathor, and was often depicted wearing her crown on its head, an image that may have reproduced an actual temple cult statue. It was also connected to the myth of god Osiris, believed to have eaten his penis after god Seth had dismembered and scattered the god's body. The fish was worshipped under the name Medjed.
