Phoenician Cream Stone Scaraboid Stamp Seal with Star on Sceptre

Modelled in the round, with hands crossed on the chest, holding the deity's characteristic crook and flail, and wearing the atef- crown; mounted on a wooden display stand bearing the legend 'Osiris Ptolemaic'. 56.3 grams total, 11.6 cm high including stand



Acquired Herne Bay High Street, June 1957. 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.8.

With incised anatomical detailing on the body, the underside ground smooth, with a faint trace of an original horizontal suspension hole. 3.28 grams, 20 mm



London, UK, art market, 1980s. Private collection, London, UK.

Two fragments of distinctive blue-painted pottery and one from a Mycenaean vessel. 221 grams total, 7.2-16.5 cm



Acquired in March 1979. 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.143.

The largest blue-painted fragment likely comes from the neck, and the smaller from the body, of a large storage vessel; intact examples of these vessels have been found at Amarna (cf. Seyfried, F. (ed.), In the Light of Amarna: 100 Years of the Nefertiti Discovery, Berlin, 2012, pp. 288-289, Cat. no. 68, for a near-complete example). Amarna has yielded the largest quantity of Late Helladic (LH IIIA2) Mycenaean pottery in Egypt. Analysis has revealed that several Mycenaean sherds excavated at Amarna in Egypt come from a production site in the northern Argolid, probably in the Mycenae-Berbati region.