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LOT 0414
Egyptian Stone Age Knapped Knife Blades from Thebes
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 11,000-5,200 B.P.
4 1/8 - 5 5/8 in. (279 grams total, 10.6-14.3 cm).
Each of curved profile with broad cutting edge; old inked findspots 'Desert W. of Thebes 1912' (2 examples), 'W. of Thebes 1912' (2 examples), 'W. Thebes 1912'. [5, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound in the desert west of Thebes, Egypt, 1912.
From 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 0414
Egyptian Stone Age Knapped Knife Blades from Thebes
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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Large Egyptian Amuletic Cartouche-shaped Stamp Naming Amun-Re
Third Intermediate Period-Late Period, circa 1069-332 B.C.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
Large oval stamp with plano-convex profile, plumed motif to the top, pierced for suspension; underside with hieroglyphic legend, possibly a garbled version of (A)mun-Re, lord of the thrones (of the two lands). 13.2 grams, 49 mm
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. -
Egyptian Snail-Shaped Ribbon Mosaic Glass Bead Group
Roman Period, 30 B.C.-323 A.D.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising black-and-yellow mosaic glass beads shaped like snails. 10.4 grams total, 10-11 mm
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. -
Large Egyptian Coptic Tunic Textile Fragment with Central Broad Clavus and Side Clavus
Circa 7th-8th century A.D.Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising a large portion of tunic, with a complete section of the collar (maniakion) divided in successive decorative circular bands, ornamented with geometric patterns of floral elements, plants, interlaces; a central segmentum broadly decorated with geometric patterns, palmettes, triangles, and a round medallion with an impressive floral design; the segmentum is bordered by two purple stripes, flanked by other two bands of vegetal ornaments enclosed in medallions; the terminal part of the tunic still presents the fastening stripes of selvedges in rope forming the lowed border; S-twist yellow-orange and purple wool warp on linen; a long clavus in purple wool on linen decorated with vegetal interlaces, the borders meander decorated. 236 grams total including paper folder, 57.5 cm
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016.
The large fragment featuring geometric and vegetal decoration may date to the early period of the Islamic conquest, when tunic ornamentation began to take on an increasingly abstract and geometric character, often linked to the representation of plants and Nilotic flora. The rich decoration of the tunic and the use of purple suggest that it may have belonged to an aristocrat or a wealthy ecclesiastic of the Coptic-Greek population, or perhaps to a dignitary of the Umayyad Empire.
