Relics of the Nile is pleased to present this interesting small, intact ushabti for your consideration. This ushabti remains fully intact and displays the famous Ushabti style with partial back pillar and mummiform design. The facial features are still clear and display the royal Nemes headcloth and the hands crossed over the chest to hold the agriculatural crook and flail (to aid the deceased in their journey through the afterlife)...

A near superb condition silex axe, dating to the Singlegrave period, 2800-2400 BC.

A partly polished axe with a very attractive patination and in near mint condition with a razorsharp edge.

Size: ca. 15 cm. long.

Ex. Danish Collection, comes with COA.

This item comes with a standard export license, when shipped outside Denmark. The license will be issued after sale - estimated delivery of the item with official license is 2-4 weeks after the sale.

This is a very unusual, decorated bronze axe head from Northern Iran. I have not seen an axe of this exact type before. It has a reddish brown patina that is typical of earlier bronze or copper age pieces. The overall design and decoration is quite unique as is obvious in the photos. This piece weighs 276 grams and measures nearly 12 cm across. Such an unusual piece will not last long so don't miss it!

Attractive Djet pillar amulet in green faience, late period, c. 7th.-3rd. century BC.

Size: 28 mm. tall.

Condition: Very fine, small loss at the top right.

Provenance: Formerly in the private collection of Eberhard Hanfstaengl (1886-1973). He was a famous German Art director and head of the Berlin National Gallery as well as other higher positions. Educated as Art Historian. Comes with COA.

Relics of the Nile is pleased to present this outstanding and well-wrapped ancient Egyptian mummy. This mummy features fine wrapping with an outer shroud surrounding the ibis within. This is in the style found in similar offerings to the god Thoth and dates to the Ptolemaic period, ca. 350 B.C.. This is a rare mummy and is an excellent example of an ibis mummy. The mummy was originally part of the Wallace N. Stearns collection and was part of the MacMurray College collection in Missouri.

A pair of attractively patinated and well-knapped axes, both dating to Daggertime, 2400-1800 BC.

The lot includes the finely knapped Daggertime types that are made as imitations of bronze axes of the period.

Size: 13,5 cm. and 13 cm.

Condition: Minor chipping to the edges othervise as made, exceptional marsh patina on both - brown and amber colours.

This lot comes with a standard export license, when shipped outside Denmark...

This is really a fantastic fragment of a faience Isis, sitting on a lion throne, nursing her son Horus.
The whole throne, supported by two stringing lions, is well preserved. The lions are extremely fine
and you can see every detail. Dating is between Third Intermediate Period to Late Period.
I think it looks a little bit Nubian, than it is 25th Dynasty...

An interestion and rare bronze battleaxe, European, late bronzeage-early Ironage period, 1st. millenium BC.

A beautiful axe, long slender type with mounting hole to the back and a slightly curving blade.

Size: 13,5 cm. long

Condition: Superb, fine green patina with a dusting of earthern encrustations.

This axe comes from a find in Germany and was offcially exported with a license.

This is a fine ancient Egyptian Scarab, 1200 BC, from the famous Mitry collection (see our Homepage). It is 7/16” long (11 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 help it resurrect. This Scarab comes in a jewelry display cup. The bottom is a scarab pushing up the sun, with cobras on either side.

Egyptian Amarna New Kingdom 18th-19th Dynasty Fiance highly detailed molded bead in green , good condition c 1300 BC. Size over 1/2"

This is a copper alloy dagger or short sword. It has an interesting patina consisting primarily of light to medium green tones (likely malachite) mottled with red and reddish brown areas (likely copper oxides). There are areas where the deep brown, lightly corroded base metal is still visible and somewhat lustrous. The entire hilt, including the crescent-shaped pommel, is bordered by a thick and even ridge which would have served to contain the grip scales made of bone, wood, or ivory...

A fine Roman bronze arm, bent at the elbow, with well-definewd fingers and fingernails. 2nd/3rd Century A.D. 5 3/4 inches from elbow to tip of fingers, 3 1/4 inches from above the elbow. From an old New Jersey collection.

A lot of 4 lovely points in fine hardstones and silex from the private collection of P.F. Wulff. We're selling this very old collection in smaller lots to give everyone a chance to own a small piece of the pre-historic Americas!

Two of four points are carved in scarce translucent hardstone, probably agate, and two probably in silex. One is Paleo-Indian from c. 10.000-8000 BC and others can probably be dated to the 2nd.-1st. millenium BC...

This is a bronze age harpoon from Northern India dating to circa 1500 BC. This magnificent piece weighs 303 grams and measures roughly 249 mm in length (the smallest one I currently have in stock). It has a fantastic patina that suggests a high copper content and no signs of damage or repair. I am listing four of these harpoons this week. Don't miss out on this incredible find.

A large 62 cm. necklace with modern stringing of miltiple long faience beads in Egyptian blue (Lapis lazuli colour), torquise blue and green colours, c. 2nd. mill. BC.

Ex. G. D. collection, Berlin and Bavaria, aquired between 1930 and 1970.

Comes with COA

A Necklace, bracelet and earrings. The beads have been carefully restrung from ancient faience mummy multi-colored beads. Wearable and in very good condition

Egypt; Hyksos Period; 1550 BC

Dimensions:
Necklace length: 42 cm
Bracelet: 20 cm

EGYPTIAN MUMMY BEADS

Egyptian burial sites have yielded enormous quantities of beads in many varieties...

Terracotta grotesque head with typical pejorative traits of a slave.. The bearded man shows a high, furrowed brow, bulged eyebrows, and a thick, hooked nose. The thick lower lip is contoured by a moustache.
For a comparable example, cf. item no. 489 in: Eva Bayer-Niemeier. Bildwerke der Sammlung Kaufmann. Band I. Griechisch-römische Terrakotten. Melsungen 1988.
Much use of the modelling stick. Moldmade of two halves, only the front surviving...

Carved limestone head of a man with a voluminous wig. The man shows a gentle smile, which is emphasized by the wear of the face’s high points.
The ears appear just below faint sideburns that protrude from the striated wig.
Elaborate carving as visible in the corner of the right eye.
Limestone
Egyptian, Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 BC
H. 3.6 cm (1.4 in)
H. with stand 5.3 cm (2.1 in)
Broken at the neck level. Abraded nose and high points...