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LOT 0429
Graeco-Egyptian Terracotta Hanging Shrine with Face of Athena
ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
4 3/8 in. (158 grams, 11.2 cm).
Tubular type with the facing head of Athena on the obverse, void on the reverse. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx E.B.W. Chapplelow collection, January 1958.
Certificate of antiquity no.668 of Blanchard's Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
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.14.
Cf. Fjeldhagen, M., Graeco-Roman Terracottas from Egypt. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 1995, pp. 96-97, nos. 77-78, for examples of hanging shrine-like lanterns with moulded Athena heads; Weber, W., Die ägyptisch-griechischen Terrakotten, Berlin, 1914, pl. 41, for various hanging terracottas.
FootnotesHanging shrine-like terracottas often served as lanterns for nighttime lamp festivals of the syncretic Romano-Egyptian goddess Athena-Neith, as shown in this example by the large, possibly soot-stained, opening at the back. This object type is characteristic of the so-called 'Fayum terracottas', as large numbers of terracotta figurines were recovered from the Fayum Oasis.
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LOT 0429
Graeco-Egyptian Terracotta Hanging Shrine with Face of Athena
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
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