Lapis lazuli eye of Horus amulet c. 900 - 600 B.C
Condition: look at pictures
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The long, conical shaped, tapering body with prominent horizontal bands and lug handles. Late Period, 26th-30th DYNASTY, 688-343 B.C. 6 1/4 inches high. Two small chips on top. Mounted. Some photos illuminated. Purchased on the Paris art market. Said to be from an old French collection.
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.
This is a lovely blue ancient Egyptian Scarab, c. 1800 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 help it resurrect. This Scarab comes in a jewelry display cup.
Egyptian Amarna New Kingdom 18th-19th Dynasty Fiance highly detailed molded bead , good condition c 1300 BC. Size over 1/2"
An ancient Egyptian Scaraboid, c. 1200 BC, from the famous Mitry collection (see our Homepage). It is X” long (X 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.
Condition look at pictures please.
From an old German collection.
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Tall mummiform servant of the dead in superb glossy green faience, hands held to chest holding crook and flail, wearing royal beard, pillar up reverse side which helps us date this to the 27th/30th Dynasty, and glypthic text that can be seen on the picture.
Origin: Egypt
Period: Late Period, 27th/30th Dynasty
Date: 554 - 332 B.C.
Material: Fayence
Dimension: 12,0 cm...
Rare fragment of a large faience sistrum. The fragment is the upper part
of a large faience sistrum with two hawks above side by side bearing the sun disk.
It is seldom to find a sistrum which is surmounted with gods or sacred animals.
A sistrum with a similar upper part is in the Eaton College Myer Collection (ECM1693), see last picture.
Date: Egypt,Third Intermediate Period, ca. 22. Dynasty, circa 945 - 715 B.C.
Material: Faience
Size: width ca. 6,1 cm, high ca...
Wooden animal sarcophagus, perhaps intended for a serpent, fashioned as a shrine with nice cavetto cornices on top and a vertical sliding door in front.
Carved from a single piece of cedar with interior grooves to fit the front panel.
These kinds of shrines could house mortuary statues, mummified remains of animals or symbols associated with a particular deity.
For a snake coffin in the Brooklyn Museum, cf. inv. no. 37.1358E. For a shrew coffin with sliding door, cf. inv. no...
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...
Ancient Egyptian Red Fayence sphinx with a cat or lioness body with a four-stranded Nubian hair style 1,5 cm.
Dynasty 25, Kushite. For parallels see Carol Andrews, p. 79 and Fig. 78.
Provenance: Old German collection befor 1983
Condition: look at pictures
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An good Two-finger amulet, Egypt, Late Period, 664 - 322 B.C.
The stylized amulet carved in grey-black stone.
Size: 29-30 mm. long.
Condition: Good Very fine, intact with minor wear and fine patination.
Two-finger amulets were used for the dead and were often found on the lower left of the torso. This is the area of the incision that was made during the mummification process in order to remove the internal organs...
Ancient egyptian carnelian scarab amulet 2,6 cm
Scarab amulets were used for their magical rejuvenating properties by both the living and the dead. Scarabs were used by living individuals as seals from the start of the Middle Kingdom (ca. 2055 BCE) onwards. These scarabs, like JHUAM 3757 and 3778, had inscriptions on their flat bottoms and could be impressed into mud or clay. The most common inscription for these scarabs was the owner’s name...
Shabti for Padihoremheb
Petit chaouabti portant les instruments aratoires peints, la perruque tripartite ceinte d'un bandeau blanc. Il présente une colonne ventrale au nom de Mout-em-Wouia Bois polychrome à pigments noirs, rouges et blancs.
Origin: Egypt
Period: New Kingdom, 18. – 20. Dynastie
Date: 1550 - 1069 B.C.
Material: Wood
Dimension: 12,3 cm...
Altägyptisch Fayence one of the best Shabti from Nanefer-Senebek - 11.6×2.7×2.4 cm
ll documents and certificates are included.
The inscription is read as follows: The overseer, Osiris Nanefer-senebek, son of Her-udja, born of Ta-net-per-nbw, justified.
Nanefer-senebek means "your-health-is-perfect"...
Interesting Egyptian shabti inscribed with black hieroglyphs reading: “The Osiris Pa-mel”.
The figurine wears a tripartite wig and holds agricultural implements in the crossed hands.
The modeling is crude as with other known examples, the back is flat. Thin greenish glaze on a white crumbly body material...
Ancient egyptian Shabti of Pa-scheri-en-Ptah, born by Nes-Mut 12,6 cm.
Inscription of the hiroglyphs with glass paste.
Third Intermediate Period, 21th/22th Dynasty.
Material faience.
The shabti is made from faience and has a mummie shaped body with visible hands, the left hand holding a hoe, the right hand a plow and a bag over his shoulder. The figure stands on a base plate and leaning against a back pillar.
The inscription reads: The ...