Black-glazed vessel with a medallion showing a Nereid riding on a Hippocamp – a prancing horse with a fish tail – to the left. The Nereid is holding an ovoid shield that covers her left arm and her shoulder.
The depiction belongs to a cortege of Nereids carrying the arms of Achilles. The Nereids were sea nymphs and sometimes shown riding dolphins or ketoi (sea snakes).
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Rounded bronze bowl with a multiple cord-like molding on the shoulder and a slightly flared narrow rim. The flattish base is indicated with a groove.
For a comparable example formerly in the Godard collection cf. fig. 375 in: Eric De Waele. Bronzes du Luristan et d’Amlash. Louvain-La-Neuve 1982.
Bronze sheet, hammered.
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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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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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Elaborate vase showing a youth leaning on a pillar and a woman near an Ionic column.
On the back side draped youths with rather heavy heads characteristic for the Creusa Painter's late creative period.
Black-figure palmettes on one side of the neck, red-figure ivy on the other. Black ivy leaves on the volutes.
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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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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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