Egyptian, Roman and Greek Antiquities by Explorer Ancient Art
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Egyptian : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #902158
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$239.00
Fragmentary figure of Serapis. With thick wavy hair and thick beard. 2nd/3rd Century A.D. 3 inches high. Mounted. Old Belgian collection. Serapis was an Egyptian god whose devotees united the worship of the Apis bull and the god Osiris. His cult, which originated at Memphis, rose to its greatest significance at Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Greek : Bronze : Pre AD 1000 item #1101944
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$2500.00
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.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Egyptian : Wood : Pre AD 1000 item #1353457
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Standing on a rectangular base and wearing a broad beaded collar, beard, and tripartite wig surmounted by a crown of horns with plumes and sun-disk, the blank column in front surmounted by recumbent Anubis, the base inscribed with a hieroglyph inscription and containing fragments of ancient linen. The inscription translates “An offering which the king gives, and Osiris, foremost of the westerners (Khentiementiu), the great god, lord of [Abydos].”Late Ptolemaic/early Roman Period, circa 100 B...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1900 item #1357300
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$1,100.00
David Roberts original colored print depicting "The Grand Entrance To the Temple of Luxor," Published by F.G. Moon, 20 Threadneedle St., August 1, 1848. From the original folio series "Egypt and Nubia." Matted and framed. Frame measures 26 inches X 20 inches. Separate from matting, print measures 20 inches X 15 inches. Professionally framed. David Roberts was a Scottish painter. He is especially known for a series of detailed lithograph prints of Egypt and the Near East that he produced from...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Egyptian : Bronze : Pre AD 1000 item #1369718
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$590.00
A bronze Atef crown's feather. Ram's horn on bottom upon which a rearing ureas cobra is perched, with gaps probably originally containing inlays, crowned with the solar disc; the cobra flanks a large, curling ostrich plume with multiple horizontal incised lines. Height: 3-1/2" , not including base. Late Dynastic Period, ca 700 to 330 B.C.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Roman : Bronze : Pre AD 1000 item #1370972
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$1,700.00
Probably a handle for a chest or a door. In the form of the face of a lion depicted in high relief, holding a ring in the gaping jaws, with protruding tongue, incised whiskers and fur, and radiating mane. Mounted. From an old New Jersey collection. Purchased on the NY art market in the early 1980s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Egyptian : Faience : Pre AD 1000 item #1383416
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$2,200.00
Finely detailed amulet of Hatmehyt. Depicted seated, wearing the fish crown, with finely-modelled facial details, wearing a striated, tripartite wig, arms along side and bent at the elbows. A vertical line of hieroglyphic text on the back. 3 inches high. Mounted. Late Period, 600-300 B.C. Chip on crown and part of feet restored. From an old New Jersey private collection. Ex. Royal Athena gallery. Hatmehyt was a goddess of life and protection. Her name translates as Foremost of Fish or Chief of F...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Greek : Bronze : Pre AD 1000 item #1383419
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$1,250.00
Wearing an elaborate crested Corinthian helmet, wearing a sleeveless chiton, scaled breast plate, and aegis with Gorgon’s head. 1st Century BC/1st Century AD, 3 inches high. Mounted. From an old New Jersey private collection, purchased on the NYC art market in the early 1980s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Roman : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1391802
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$390.00
North African, Terra Sigillata red-slip oil lamp, depicting a running lion surrounded by a swirling floral pattern. 2nd/3rd Century AD. 5 1/2 inches long X 3 inches wide. Repaired. Ex. old Belgian collection of Felix Lauwers, acquired 1970s-early 1980s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Egyptian : Pre AD 1000 item #1399948
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Fine head of Harpocrates, wearing the sidelock, with prominent facial details, strong nose, creased forehead, and pleasant facial expression. 1st/2nd Century AD. 2 5/8 inches high. Intact as shown. Ex. old New Jersey art market.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Egyptian : Pre AD 1000 item #1409845
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Colorful fragment from a sarcophagus. Depicting and facing left, Osiris and two of the four sons of Horus - the falcon headed god - Qebehsenuef and the jackal headed god, Duamutef. All wearing elaborate, cross-hatched, net-design garments. Hieroglyphic inscription and remains of feather design underneath. A very close parallel at the Brooklyn Museum, appears to date this cartonnage to probably the end of the 25th Dynasty, 712-664 B.C. 10 3/4 inches high X 6 1/4 inches wide. All original pigment....
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Egyptian : Faience : Pre AD 1000 item #1432449
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$1,200.00
Faience ushabti for Horpenaset. Depicted mummiform, wearing a tripartite wig and beard. With pleasant, well defined, facial details, with arms crossed and hands emerging from tightly-fitted garment, hands holding hoes and seed sack behind the left shoulder. A T-shaped column of incised text at the front reads: "Illuminate the Osiris, Horpenaset, born of Asetshesen". 30th Dynasty, 365 -332 B.C. 4 3/8 inches high. Intact. Mounted. From an old New Jersey collection.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Egyptian : Faience : Pre AD 1000 item #1432453
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An Egyptian faience shabti for Horet-Ha. Depicted mummiform, wearing a tripartite wig and false beard, hands holding hoes and seed sack suspended over his left shoulder. 26th Dynasty, 664–525 BC, 5 7/8th inches high. Intact. Mounted. From an old New Jersey private collection.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Egyptian : Faience : Pre AD 1000 item #1459507
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$650.00
Depicting a figure seated on his haunches, his legs spread apart, his testicles indicated toward the right to accommodate his enormous phallus which rises up the left side of his body and rests on the top of his head, his left hand supporting his phallus. 1 3/4 inches high. Late Period to Ptolemaic period, 664-30 B.C. Imperfections as shown. Purchased on the Julia Schottlander, London art market in the early 1980s. The identity of the figure is unclear, but often the figure is identifiable as...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Egyptian : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1459673
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Glazed steatite royal scarab with inscription stating "Akheperu-Re" (Amenhotep II), 18th dynasty, @ 1425 –1400. 3/4 inch. From a Florida estate collection. Said to be purchased in the early 1980s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Egyptian : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #1460056
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Ancient Egyptian limestone head with thick wig and prominent facial details. With traces of original pigment. Possibly from the head on an ushabti. New Kingdom, 19th/20th Dynasty, 1292–1069 BC. 2 inches high. Mounted. Fragmentary. Ex. Oliva Tiano, Paris, said to be from an old French collection, collected in the 1960s - 1970s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Egyptian : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1460212
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$440.00
An ancient Egyptian steatite scarab with the royal prenomen name Men-kheper-Re (Thutmosis III); including an adjective or descriptive phrase stating the good god + Amun (very schematic). 3/4 inch. 18th dynasty, 1479 BC to 1425 BC. From a Florida estate. Said to be purchased in the early 1980s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Greek : Pre AD 1000 item #1461214
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$1,900.00
A large ancient Greek pair statue. Appears to represent the nude Adonis, his right leg slightly bent on the knee, standing on a raised pedestal, gazing down on an enamoring Aphrodite, with hair pulled back into a bun, her right arm bent at the elbow, and her left hand, grasping her long, flowing drapery. With some wear to facial details and with extensive remains of encrustations. @ 3rd Century B.C. Intact as shown. 11 inches high. From a Massachusetts estate. In the story of Aphrodite and ...