Glas Alabastron

Alabastron on a blue background, combed in brown and white like a feather, two types of handle extensions on the side.

(see also Corning, Smith Coll., no. 19)

Origin: Egypt

Period: late 4th – early 3rd century

Material: Glass

Dimension: 12,0 cm...

An eastern mediterranean core – formed glass amphoriskos

Core-formed opaque blue Amphoriskos with yellow and white trail wound spirally around rim and neck, under the shoulder both trails are combed into a feather pattern. The knob at the bottom and the handles are made of greenish clear glass.

(cf. Morell collection, M136)

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean

Period: 2nd - mid 1st century B.C...

Ancient egypt Dove - shaped bird made of blue glass with white threads

See Corning, Smith Coll. 1957, no. 512

Origin: Egypt

Period: 8th - 10th Dynasty

Material: Glass

Dimension: H 4.2 cm, L 10 cm...

A lovely ancient Egyptian Scarab, c. 1400 BC, from the famous Mitry collection (see our Homepage). It is 3/8” long (9 mm) and made of steatite, an easy-to-carve stone that hardens when heated. Scarabs empowered life and resurrection and were often placed under mummy wrappings to protect the body and to help it resurrect. This Scarab comes in a jewelry display cup.

Shabti for Tches-shet-Respen (1)

Origin: Egypt

Period: Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 22

Date: 946/945 – 805/800 B.C

Material: Fayence

Dimension: 11,5 cm...

Shabti for Tches-shet-Respen (2)

Origin: Egypt

Period: Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 22

Date: 946/945 – 805/800 B.C

Material: Fayence

Dimension: 11,0 cm...

Shabti for Tches-shet-Respen (3)

Origin: Egypt

Period: Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 22

Date: 946/945 – 805/800 B.C

Material: Fayence

Dimension: 11,5 cm...

An ancient Egyptian Scarab, c. 1200 BC. It is 1/2” long (13 mm) and made of steatite, an easy-to-carve stone that hardens when heated. Scarabs empowered life and resurrection and were often placed under mummy wrappings to protect the body and to help it resurrect. This Scarab comes in a jewelry display cup.

Shabti for Tches-shet-Respen (4)

Origin: Egypt

Period: Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 22

Date: 946/945 – 805/800 B.C

Material: Fayence

Dimension: 11,5 cm...

Shabti for Iset Ta - Hemdjert (1)

Faience Ushabti “Iset Ta-Hemdjert” the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Ramses III.

Death figure with uraeus and youthful curls, as well as with remains of the eight-line surrounding inscription.

Queen “Iset Ta-Hemdjert” had at least two children, Ramses the successor to his father, and Amunherchepeschef (Ramses VI), who became king after the death of his brother and nephew (Ramses V...

A large two-colored Egyptian eye of Horus amulet. Made of turquoise glazed composite, the pupil and eyebrows accentuated in dark brown. Dating c. to the 22nd to 25th Dynasties, 946 - 657 B.C. Condition: traces of age. Dimension: c. 3.3 cm long, 2 cm high, 0.5 cm thick.

Shabti for Iset Ta - Hemdjert (2)

Faience Ushabti “Iset Ta-Hemdjert” the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Ramses III.

Death figure with uraeus and youthful curls, as well as with remains of the eight-line surrounding inscription.

Queen “Iset Ta-Hemdjert” had at least two children, Ramses the successor to his father, and Amunherchepeschef (Ramses VI), who became king after the death of his brother and nephew (Ramses V...

Shabti for Psusennes II (Pasebakheniut II) Worker

Excavated in 1940 by Pierre Montet in Tanis, tomb III

Cairo Museum, overseer JE 86959, worker JE 86958

Photo: Tanis, L’or des pharaons pg. 136-137

Origin: Egypt

Period: Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty

Date: 959 – 945 BC

Material: Fayence

Dimension: 7,0 cm...

Shabti for Psusennes II (Pasebakheniut II) Overseer

Excavated in 1940 by Pierre Montet in Tanis, tomb III

Cairo Museum, overseer JE 86959, worker JE 86958

Photo: Tanis, L’or des pharaons pg. 136-137

Origin: Egypt

Period: New Kingdom, 21st Dynasty

Date: 959 – 945 BC

Material: Fayence

Dimension: 7,0 cm...

A pair of ancient Egyptian bronze and inlaid stone eyes. Late Period, 600-300 B.C. Right eye measures 2 inches wide. Left eye measures 1 3/4 inches wide. Originally, from a NYC private collection.

Solid cast, the bronze cobra with flaring hood and bulging eyes, curved along the back of the hood, its head crowned by a solar disk, the body once inlaid, with a tenon at the base. 5 1/4 inches high including the tenon. Suspension loop on back of head. V.G. Collection Brussels, 1975.

Shabti for Nakh – tef

An Egyptian white glazed faience shabti for Nakh-tef Early Ramesside.

Origin: Egypt

Period: New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty,

Date: c. 1275 B.C.

Material: Fayence

Dimension: 14,0 cm...

A lovely large scarab, probably made in Canaanite lands of the Levante, Early New Kingdom 16th.-15th. century BC.

A beautiful carving of a large Lion attacking a rather small feeble Human with a spear. The Lion is here probably meant to represent the Pharao and the human, could be a Levantine warrior? Very well carved base and with carvings on the back as well.

Size: 22 x 15 mm.

Condition: Near Very fine, large ancient ding to the back as seen in the pictures...