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Egyptian faience openwork ring
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Pre AD 1000 item# 1139403 (stock# E60)
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A green glazed faience finger ring decorated with an openwork and relief moulded design incorporating a seated goddess, possibly Maat.
Egypt, 22nd Dynasty, 10th to 8th Century BC
Size: 2.3 x 1.5 cms
Repaired from five pieces with a small area of loss
Ex. collection: C. R. Stone, UK; acquired around Heliopolis in Egypt during the early 1940's. Mr. Stone was attached to the intelligence division of the Royal Air Force and based in Egypt for a large part of World War II.
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Greek Attic Anthesteria chous
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Pre AD 1000 item# 1138042 (stock# G23)
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UK Pounds - £1500.00
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A black glazed pottery miniature trefoil-lipped oinochoe (chous) decorated in red figure with a depiction of a child raising himself on a foot-stool to reach a jug suspended on a wall. The child is shown with typical podgy features and long hair, he wears a girdle of amulets around his naked waist.
The chous vessel was used during a very important Athenian festival known as Anthesteria which was held annually to celebrate the year's new wine. Children as young as three were initiated into t ...click for details
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Egyptian alabaster scarab
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Pre AD 1000 item# 1138036 (stock# E72)
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A carved banded alabaster scarab with a plain base and striated wing-case.
Egypt, 1st Millennium BC
Intact
Size: 2.6 x 2 cm
Ex. Private collection, UK; acquired in the early 20th Century. Thence acquired in Christies London in 2005 by Dr. Pietro Villari, Sicily, Italy. Dr. Villari co-founded The International Centre of High Education and Research in Archaeology (Venice); and in 1996 he also founded The Archaeological Centre (The Netherlands).
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Cypriot Early Bronze Age incised pottery flask
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Pre AD 1000 item# 1135477 (stock# C26)
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A burnished red and black pottery flask with extensive incised decoration.
Cyprus, Early Bronze Age, 2500-1900 BC
Repaired from numerous fragments with some restoration.
Size: 12.4 x 8 cms
Ex. collection: Leto Severis, Cyprus. (There is no characteristic LS reference number inked on the base but the previous owner acquired this vessel at the dispersal of the Severis collection in Christies).
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