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LOT 0541
Romano-Egyptian Plaster Mummy
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
1 3/4 in. (6.14 grams, 44 mm).
D-shaped in section with mummy wrapping to the body, exposed face with curls of hair. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.
LiteratureCf. Picchi, D., Rossi, M., Casali, F., Romani, D., ‘Analysis of an Egyptian Corn-Mummy by means of computed tomography’ in Maravelia, A.A. (ed.), En Quête de la Lumière / In Quest of Light. Mélanges in Honorem Ashraf A. Sadek, Oxford, 2009, pp.1-10, fig.5, for a miniature Roman mummy.
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LOT 0541
Romano-Egyptian Plaster Mummy
Estimate £40 - 60€46 - 70 (for guidance only)$54 - 81 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Egyptian Faience Amulet Group
Late-Ptolemaic Period, circa 664-30 B.C. and laterEstimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
Comprising a glassy faience Isis Lactans, depicted with Nephthys's headdress; a bandy-legged nude Pataikos; and a striding anthropomorphic Thoth. 6.59 grams total, 25-32 mm
Ex Chris Belton Artefacts, 1980s. -
Egyptian Bright Blue Glazed Faience Shabti of Wennefer
New Kingdom, circa 1292-1069 B.C.Estimate: £600 - 800 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Upper half of a mummiform figure (feet missing), with a black-painted tripartite wig, crossed arms subtly modelled in relief, and hands holding hoes rendered in black; two globular water pots (?) on the back, with a bold black line beneath; a hieroglyphic text on the lower body, reading: 'The Osiris Wennefer'; mounted on a display stand. 61 grams total, 11 cm including stand
Acquired from the Egyptian Exploration Society, 30th June 1965, for 2 shillings and sixpence. 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.118.
Wennefer, a common name, particularly in the New Kingdom and the Third Intermediate Period, which loosely translates as 'the perfect being', was also an epithet of Osiris. -
Egyptian Green Stone Baboon Statuette
New Kingdom, 1550-1070 B.C.Estimate: £1,500 - 2,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £825
Carved in the round as an amuletic baboon figure with a lunar crescent-and-disc headdress and a ribbed suspension loop behind the head. 6.21 grams, 33 mm
Private collection, acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s; thence by descent. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13180-249315.
Amulets depicting the squatting baboon wearing the lunar headdress can represent either Thoth or Khonsu.
