This is a genuine Egyptian sarcophagus, the wooden coffins shaped and decorated to represent the deceased on their way to the next life. In exceptionally good condition, dated to approx 600 BC, this is a wooden example, its occupant unknown, but simply and finely rendered with a red-brown painted face on a black ground, large and dramatic white eyes, and gold painted hieroglyphics down the front of the body area. It dates from approximately 2600 years B.P. during the twenty-sixth dynasty, or Sa ...click for details
Venus was a major Roman goddess principally associated with love, beauty and fertility, the equivalent of the Greek goddess Aphrodite. These sculptures are therefore referred to in either form. This stunning marble torso of Aphrodite, from an old German collection of 60 yrs, is after a Hellenistic sculpture similar to the type of the Aphrodite of Syracuse, circa 2nd century BC, standing with weight on one leg and bending slightly forward. Height is 27" tall, with sturdy, custom mount. Needl ...click for details
