Finely sculpted figurine of a falcon symbolizing Horus. The bird with incised circular eyes and linear rendition of the details. The wing tips crossed on the back. The falcon is standing on a rectangular base.
A hole on top of the head for the insertion of a crowning element.
Alabaster
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Red-figure skyphos decorated with two female heads.
The palmettes below the handles are framed with 'feathered' volutes typical for Campanian vase painting.
Ceramic
Campanian, 330-300 BC
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Female figure standing in nice contrapposto pose accentuated by a virtuous drapery. The turned head with the elaborate hairdo is covered with a pointed sun hat.
Terracotta
Tarentine, 3rd century BC
H. 18.5 cm (7.3 in)
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Red-figured fish-plate by the Robinson Painter decorated with two breams and a torpedo.
The torpedo is shown with round body, and decorated with four black spots. The tail is rounded with merged tail fins, which appear as slight bulges on either side. Body and larger spots are outlined in added white.
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Finely modelled figurine of Aphrodite with her hands resting on her thighs.
The goddess of love is shown with pairs of rosettes on each arm which fix a skintight garment once rendered with applied color.
Feet and a small flower on the left hand broken off, otherwise intact.
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Large black-glazed dish with gently raised floor and bulged rim. A reserved area around the buff-colored ring foot. Impression of another cup’s foot inside the bowl, which made the glaze turn to red due to excessive heat.
Ceramic
Cypriot, Iron Age, 1st millennium BC
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Bust of a bearded priest wearing a conical headdress with sideward plaits running down to the shoulders. Small face with prominent nose and faded features. The right arm raised to the chest, the left resting on the side.
For a related item cf. lot no. 373/374 in: Sotheby’s New York, June 1995 auction.
Terracotta
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Nice Egyptian terracotta head of a boy with chubby features. The face with smiling and slightly purse lips, a fleshy nose and heavy eyelids. Tiny holes on the cheeks and Venus fold on the neck.
Terracotta
Egyptian, 1st century AD
H. 4.5 cm (1.7 in)
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Priapos standing in graceful pose wearing a heavy cloak which he is pulling up with the right hand to show his naked lower body.
A hole on the belly where a large penis was inserted.
The ithyphallic god of fertility wears a veil surmounted by a modius.
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Rare head of Isis-Demeter showing chubby features, beady eyes and purse lips. A Venus ring along the neck. The Severan style melon hairdo is carefully braided. The goddess is wearing a veil and large earrings.
Over her head the solar disk and a grain ear between two cow’s horns, all emerging from a couple of leafs. These are attributes of Isis-Demeter, the goddess of vegetation and fertility.
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