JFF Ancient Art
€780.00
€780.00
Nice ancient Egyptian cartonnage fragments with column of hieroglyphic text.
These three cartonnage fragments have an interesting and old provenance. They come from the Commandeur Marius Cazeneuve (1839-1913, he was a French stage magician,
who became a close friend of the queen of Madagascar, Ranavalona III) collection;
he got a lot of antiquities from his friend, the noted Egyptologist and Director of the
Cairo Museum, Gaston Maspero...
JFF Ancient Art
€760.00
€760.00
Interesting collection of a faience Shu amulet and a book from the property of Lord Grenfell...
JFF Ancient Art
€780.00
€780.00
Rare fragment of a large faience sistrum. The fragment is the upper part
of a large faience sistrum with two hawks above side by side bearing the sun disk.
It is seldom to find a sistrum which is surmounted with gods or sacred animals.
A sistrum with a similar upper part is in the Eaton College Myer Collection (ECM1693), see last picture.
Date: Egypt,Third Intermediate Period, ca. 22. Dynasty, circa 945 - 715 B.C.
Material: Faience
Size: width ca. 6,1 cm, high ca...