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Egyptian blue faience baboon amulet
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Pre AD 1000 item# 1120825 (stock# E48)
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A bright blue glazed faience amulet depicting a seated baboon.
Egypt, Ptolemaic period, 332-30 BC
Some damage on the head as seen in the photographs
Size: 3.3 x 2.1 cms
Ex. collection: Henry Wallis RWS, 1830-1916.
Wallis is probably best known as an artist of the Pre-Raphaelite movement who exhibited "The death of Chatterton" to much acclaim at the Royal Academy in 1856. He worked with and enjoyed the friendship of several of the great painters of the late 19th Century includi ...click for details
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Egyptian fine bronze Bastet figure
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Pre AD 1000 item# 1120819 (stock# E136)
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UK Pounds - £3000.00
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A bronze figure representing the goddess Bastet, her slender female form is wrapped in a fine incised robe and she holds an aegis to her chest as well as a situla slung on her arm.
Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 730-332 BC
Feet and part of the right arm lost, some ancient stress cracks as seen in the photographs.
Size: 8.5 x 2.7 cms
Ex. private collection, Winchester, UK; acquired in the 19th Century.
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Egyptian Naqada painted pottery vase
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Pre AD 1000 item# 1120818 (stock# E134)
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A sizeable and very fine pottery jar with two pierced lug handles, decorated on the body and base with painted parallel wavy lines.
Egypt, Pre-Dynastic, Naqada II, circa 3500 BC
Intact apart from chipping on the rim, some light surface flakes and ancient surface cracks. There is some black staining in the cracks and over one handle - this appears to be the ancient contents which have spilt or soaked through the pottery, some residue is retained in the interior.
Size: 18.8 x 13 cms
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Roman glass seal of Julius Caesar
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Pre AD 1000 item# 1120816 (stock# R61)
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UK Pounds - £750.00
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A pale amber coloured glass intaglio seal decorated with a profile portrait, most likely a depiction of Julius Caesar.
This seal belongs to a group of stone and glass portraits which have been attributed by the Classical gem specialist Marie Louise Vollenweider in Die Porträtgemmen der römischen Republik (1972), as being depictions of the great Roman general and emperor. A copy of the chapter "Bildnisse Caesars und seiner zeitgenossen" (in German) on the subject along with numerous il ...click for details
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