Bronze lion with open roaring mouth, ruff-like mane and a curling line rendering the musculature on the shoulder.
Nice facial details and laid-back ears. A square nozzle at rear.
The style is characteristic of Persian-period depictions of lions from Egypt and allows a dating to the Achaemenid empire.
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Head with the attributes of an infant such as a rounded forehead, a fleshy nose and chubby cheeks. Linear cut on the eyebrows, the chin with two drilled holes just below the lower lip.
Grave expression conferred by marked heavy eyelids and pressed lips. One ear completely modeled; the other only cursory because of its closeness to a now lost panel behind.
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Seated bronze cat with arched back and noble posture of the head. The tail curled around to the right forepaw.
The head with engraved mouth and large eyes, the erect ears with incised details. The front of the forepaws striated.
The animal is wearing a necklace with a rudimentary Eye of Horus pendant.
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Globular vase decorated with three lions facing right. Neat incisions on the heads, applied purple for the manes which surround the indicated shoulders.
The short tails raised over the backs. Ornamental dot rosettes with incised crosses in the field.
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Etruscan bronze pendant with five stylized openwork figures holding each other by the hands.
The bossed heads embellished with earrings. A larger ring for suspension through the head of the central human figure.
The horizontal bottom is pierced with several holes from which depend some bronze rings.
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Attic lekythos with a woman holding an alabastron. Her hair tied up with a fillet. The lady is clad in a finely pleated chiton and a himation. She is standing in front of a chair. In front an behind her fillets hanging on the wall.
The reserved shoulder with up-and-down palmettes. Above and on the ground line egg pattern with dots.
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Three Egyptian ceramic stands that may have been used as supports for vessels in the kiln during firing. Two of them with pierced vent holes.
For the shape cf. UC66583 in the Petrie Museum database. For small cones used as firing supports cf. UC47322.
Ceramic
Egypt, Late period, 712-30 BC
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Large and rare wood figure of a naturalistically carved shrew mouse with a humped back and well detailed facial features. The tail attached separately.
Covered with gesso and pigmented in black and grey. Eyes white.
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Roman beaker on a small base with flaring wall to a rounded rim. As usual with ancient glass, this item is thin-walled and light as a feather.
Glass
Syro-Roman, 1st-2nd century AD
H. 10.8 cm (4.25 in), D. 5.9 cm (2.3 in)
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Roman bronze chest handle with a panther head protruding from a central knob. The almost heraldic head is rendered with knob ears, a nicely chiselled mane and arched eyebrows which merge into the nose. The recessed face with chiselled eyes and a slit mouth below.
The preserved outstretched leg to solder the handle on a bronze vessel.
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