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LOT 0561
Egyptian Stone Amulet Collection
NEW KINGDOM-LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1100-500 B.C.
1 1/8 - 1 5/8 in. (19.5 grmas total, 28-41 mm).
Comprising: a feldspar amulet of the crouching god Sokar with falcon head and human body, custom-made display stand; a carved vulture amulet on a rectangular base; suspension loop on the back. [2]
ProvenanceSokar: Ex Roger Liechti (1934-2010), Petit-Lancy, Switzerland (inv.no. E.601); acquired from Galerie Elsa-Bloch Diener, Bern.
Thence by family descent.
Vulture: Ex Roger Liechti (1934-2010), Petit-Lancy, Switzerland (inv.no. E. 772); acquired in 1984 from Mr Cohen, Galerie La Reine Margot, Paris.
Thence by family descent, Switzerland.
Cf. Reisner, G.A., Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire, Nos.12528-13595, Vol. II, Amulets, Cairo, 1958, pl. XII, no. 12950, for a comparable vulture amulet; pl. XIV, nos. 13183 and 13213, for examples of seated hawk-headed amulets.
FootnotesVulture representations are among the oldest amulet types, found in burials dating to the late Third millennium B.C. They provide apotropaic protection for the deceased. The vulture is associated with various Egyptian deities, especially with the goddess Nekhbet.
Sokar, the hawk-god originally of the Memphite necropolis and deity of fertility and artisans, became closely linked with Osiris and Ptah, forming the syncretic deity Ptah-Sokar-Osiris.
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LOT 0561
Egyptian Stone Amulet Collection
Estimate £700 - 900€810 - 1,040 (for guidance only)$950 - 1,220 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£365 (EUR 423; USD 493) ‡+BP*
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Egyptian Carnelian Heart Amulet
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Carved with tiny lateral lugs, surmounted by a suspension loop. 1.04 grams, 15 mm
Ex London collection, 1990s. -
Egyptian Terracotta Funerary Cone of Aakheperka
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, circa 1400 B.C.Estimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
The front portion of a tapering funerary cone with the flat circular end impressed with three complete and one partial column of hieroglyphic text, reading: 'The Osiris, weapons bearer of Thutmose I, Aakheperka, true of voice [before the great] god'. 413 grams, 93 mm
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.
Aakheperka's tomb remains unknown. -
Large Egyptian Bright Blue Faience Sun Disc Amulet
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Large discoid with deep blue glaze, representing the sun disc on the horizon, pierced at the top. 7.5 grams, 32 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.
The sun disc and sun-disc-on-the-horizon (akhty) amulets are linked to the deceased's rebirth.
