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LOT 0461
Egyptian Wooden Artefact Collection
LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.
1 3/8 - 7 1/4 in. (47 grams total, 3.6-18.5 cm).
Comprising various items with remains of polychrome pigment, including a sun disk; an arm from a diorama; a wing of Isis; two scarab wings and others. [10, No Reserve]
Provenance
UK private collection.
Acquired from Den of Antiquity, Cambridgeshire, UK, 2010.
Property of a Nottinghamshire gentleman.
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