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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Hollow cast bronze figure of a baboon squatting on a stepped plinth.
The animal is seated on his haunches with the forepaws on his knees. The tail is drawn around the body to his right, the genitalia are exposed.
The cape-like mass of fur is incised with dotted scales. Skin folds along the forepaws and on the sides.
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Cast bronze statuette of Apis striding on a rectangular base. The sacred bull carries the solar disk with uraeus between the horns and shows an incised triangle on the brow.
On the back the usual saddle cloth framed by open-winged scarabs. The heavy neck with an incised broad collar.
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Decorated with an erotic scene next to the small loop handle. The belly with a frieze of Bes figures framed by rosettes.
The dwarf god Bes was the protector of women in childbirth, neonates and the human body in general.
For a related pottery alabastron in Cairo cf. lot no. 50b, p. 102 in: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae ...click for details
Youthful head with heavy-lidded eyes, small angular nose and pouty lips.
The elaborate coiffure surrounded by a stippled and ribboned floral wreath. The straight hair drawn back behind the youth’s large ears.
Terracotta
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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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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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Egyptian ceramic stand of tubular shape with slightly flaring ends. Striation marks along the shaft. For the shape cf. UC66625 in the Petrie Museum database.
Joined by three belonging ceramic stands that may have been used as supports for vessels in the kiln during firing. Two of them with pierced vent holes.
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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.
The shrewmouse appears in ancient Egyptian religious iconography as incarnation of the blind and vulnerable aspect of Ho ...click for details
