Shell limestone Anatolian sphinx with the body of a recumbent lion with short forepaws, the tail turning over the right haunch.
The female head showing a receding forehead, large eyes, heavy cheeks and full lips. Tresses to both sides of face and a queue down the neck.
Shell limestone
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Black-glazed Attic mug with thin flaring rim lip, curved wall slightly offset from the bulged foot. Low strap handle. The flat underside reserved bearing a small circle at center.
For a similar shape cf. item no. 191 in: B.A. Sparkes, L. Talcott. The Athenian Agora. Black and Plain Pottery. Princeton 1970.
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Rare hand-modeled Villanovan cup with a vertical handle flanked by two small stylized rotelles. Five tiny knobs applied just below the rim.
This small vase orientates on larger pottery and may have been confectioned as a child’s toy.
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Black-figure depiction of naked youths with clamydes that cover their shoulders and bystanders clad in cloaks. All figures hold spears.
The scene is framed with ivy garlands on the sides and buds alternating with dots on the marked shoulder. A row of tongues emerge from the ridged junction to the neck.
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Large ornate vessel with wide funnel-shaped mouth and vertical handles alternating with raised left hands. The hands enhanced with stripes. Dots on the back of the hand, the forefinger and the little finger.
On the shoulder metopes with painted panels and dotted spaces over ivy garlands.
For a closely related vase cf. no. 211 in: Electa Napoli. L’art des peoples italiques. Geneva 1993.
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Tall spherical jar with cylindrical neck and folded collar rim. Two bands of wheel-cut grooves encircling the body. The flat base slightly incurved.
Free-blown amber colored glass
H. 19.1 cm (7.5 in)
D. 15.7 cm (6.2 in)
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Egyptian figure of Harpokrates wearing a long tunic. The child god is putting his right hand into a pot which is much like the cornucopia a symbol of abundance.
The head is superbly delineated with heavy-lidded eyes, a big nose and fleshy lips. A Herakles knot with two feathers top the round forehead.
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Blue faience shabti with six lines of horizontal text beginning below the crossed arms. Fine hieroglyphs with exceptional orthography and archaic vocabulary, version VII-A of the shabti spell.
Ankh-Hor was Governor of Upper Egypt under Psammetichus II and Apries (589-570 BC). He was also entitled as Chief Steward of the Divine Adoratrice Nitocris I (daughter of the founder of the 26th Dynasty Psammetichus I).
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Rare depiction of a fountain house with a woman and a bearded nude satyr stepping forward to reach for a large white hydria at center.
The fountain house is rendered with tall Ionic columns on either side, the band of dotted ovolos above being the roof.
The water pours from two spouts into large ribbed hidriai placed on stands. The ve ...click for details
Idol with a disk-head on a long neck and a pouch-like body with arm stumps.
Kusura-type, cf. item 520 in: Jürgen Thimme. Kunst der Kykladen. Karlsruhe 1976.
Marble
Anatolian, Early Bronze Age II, 2700 to 2400 BC
H. 5.1 cm (2 in)
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