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A FINE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GILDED BREASTPLATE browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Egyptian: Wood: Pre AD 1000: item # 810980
Explorer Ancient Art P.O. Box 60901 Staten Island, NY 10306 718-979-9205 Guest Book POR |
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| Finely decorated gilded cartonnage breastplate with brightly colored floral broad collar with falcon-headed terminals, flanked by an Osiris on the left and Horus on the right, elaborate gilded winged human-headed scarab underneath, protected by wadjet-eyes, an elaborate winged goddess below, over a shrine with three columns of finely-inscribed hieroglyphic text inscribed with the standard funerary prayer for eternal offerings and a good burial for "Hapy-men, the son of Pa-di-Khonsu, born of the mistress of the house, Ta-hesy...", flanked by the four Sons of Horus. Ptolemaic Period, 300-30 B.C. 14 1/4 inch high. Minor losses as shown. Professionally mounted and framed. Ex. Crescent Gallery, Tokyo, ex. Christies, NY | ||
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