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Ancient Glass Beads
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Pre AD 1000 item# 599763
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Kent Art and Antiques
Cell: 630-544-8039
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Two early Islamic trailed and capped beads. One with a dark gray base, white dragged trails and dark red caps. The other with a dark blue base, light blue dragged trails and yellow caps. Early Islamic, circa 7th-10th cent. CE. I have seen these beads dated to 3rd cent. BCE but I think the later date is correct. See Spaer, Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum #175 for a similar bead. Length 21mm and 25.5mm.
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Egyptian Faience
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Pre AD 1000 item# 565819
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Faience amulet of Hapy, one of the four sons of Horus. This amulet shows him with mummy wrappings.There are holes at top and bottom to secure the amulet to the wrappings of the mummy. The reverse side bears a sticker with a collection number and another with minuscule writing. The date July 1889 is easily read, the name is more difficult, it seems to be Rev W.L L. A nicely provenanced intact piece. Late Period 664-30 BCE. Height 6.9CM
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Amarna Amulet
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Pre AD 1000 item# 565176
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Cell: 630-544-8039
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Faience frog amulet, yello with green stripes and red eyes.The heiroglyph Nefer, which generally means good or beautiful, on the base. Pierced longitudenally for stringing. All frog amulets of this size and color have been found in the Royal Apartments at Amarma. See Julia Swanson, Amarna, City of Ankhenaten and Nefertiti, the identical type illustrated on page 85. I have owned this amulet since I purchased it at a Los Angeles coin show in the late 1960s. Length 11mm. Time of Ankhenaten 1353-1335 BCE. It is easy when holding this amulet to imagine one of the Ladies of the Royal Harem wearing a necklace composed of these frogs. The frog was a symbol of creation, regeneration and fertility.
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Egyptian Limestone Head
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Pre AD 1000 item# 544120
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Kent Art and Antiques
Cell: 630-544-8039
New Price $4700
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Limestone male head from the time of Amenhotep III. The period was a time of great wealth and luxury in Egypt and the art was some of the best of any era in the history of the kingdom. Amenhotep III was associated with the Aten during his lifetime which probably had something to do with the revolution in Egyptian religion started by his son Akhenaten. The fragmentary head cannot be identified as any particular person or god but it does have presence. The fine carving of this piece indicates that it is almost certainly from the Royal workshops. Circa 1386-1349 B.C. From a California collection. Ht. 7.2cm.
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