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LOT 0475
Egyptian Stone Age Knapped Lance Point Group from Luxor
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 11,000-5,200 B.P.
2 - 3 1/4 in. (60.7 grams total, 53-84 mm).
Comprising three leaf-shaped with tapering sharp points, one tongue-shaped with a rounded point; one with an inked note 'Luxor 1912'; with an old handwritten label reading 'Weapon points- possible lance points - Neolithic'. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Luxor.
From the collection of A.D. Passmore (1879-1958), his collection of flints from the area of Stonehenge was donated to the Ashmolean Museum in the 1950s.
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
Accompanied by a copy of an old handwritten information card by Peter Clayton.
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LOT 0475
Egyptian Stone Age Knapped Lance Point Group from Luxor
Estimate £150 - 200€170 - 230 (for guidance only)$200 - 270 (for guidance only)
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Egyptian Coptic Textile Fragments from a Tunic Tablion with Putto and Horse
Circa 5th-6th century A.D.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
In white linen and blue wool, tapestry work (S-twist), showing a flying putto with a horse, borders with meander decorations. 3.84 grams total, 67-74 mm
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016.
The tabula, or tablion, was a square embroidery used to decorate tunics or mantles. -
Egyptian Alabaster Fragment with Pharaoh Seti I's Cartouches
New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, circa 1278 B.C.Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000 (+bp*)
Bids: 13 | Current Bid: £550
Thick section of alabaster with traces of four columns of hieroglyphs, including two partially preserved cartouches, one containing the birth name and epithet of Seti I, Seti mery-en-Ptah ('Seti, beloved of Ptah'), and the other his throne name, Men-Maat-Re ('Eternal is the justice of Re'). 526 grams, 13.8 cm
Received by gift from archaeologist Cyril Aldred, September 1964. From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s. Accompanied by an old handwritten information card by Peter Clayton, collection no.123. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13494-262900.
Peter Clayton's card suggests that the fragment may come from Seti's alabaster sarcophagus, the elaborately decorated lower half of which is in the John Soane Museum, London. The fragment may belong to the lid, which plunderers smashed in antiquity and which survives only in a relatively small number of fragments. -
Egyptian Terracotta Funerary Cone of Menkheperreseneb
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, 15th century B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Bids: 4 | Current Bid: £150
Front portion of a tapering funerary cone, with the circular flat surface impressed with four vertical columns of hieroglyphs, reading: 'The Osiris, hereditary prince, count, chancellor of the king of Lower Egypt, first god's servant of Amun, Menkheperreseneb, true of voice.' 554 grams, 10.4 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.
Menkheperreseneb served under the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Thutmosis III. His tomb (TT 86) is in the Theban necropolis at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna.
