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EA12 Egyptian Eye of Horus (Udjat Eye) amulet, Late Dynastic Period, c. 1085-332 B.C. : £ 45A deep blue Egyptian faience Udjat eye amulet, pierced for attachment, measuring 22 mm/0.9 ins. in length. Some bubbling of the surface, but sound, Late Dynastic Period, c. 1085-332 B.C.EA13 A provenanced blue-green glazed faience amulet of ?Heryshef, Late Dynastic Period : £ 125 NEW!A blue-green glazed faience amulet of ?Heryshef, measuring 42 mm/1.6 in. in height. The facial details a little cursorily modelled but an intact example. An old collection label attached, which reads ‘Ancient Egyptian charm figure of a God of B.C. 900. Found at Gurob. Very fine’, an addition in pencil reads ‘?Herschef, terrible face’. Found at Gurob, in the Fayum, and from an old Irish (Dublin) private collection assembled in the first two decades of the 20th Century, Late Dynastic Period.Heryshef was a fertility god usually represented in the form of a ram or ram-headed man.
Gurob was excavated between 1888 and 1920 by Flinders Petrie, Ludwig Borchardt and others.EA14 A wooden Ba-bird, Late Dynastic Period, after 600 B.C. : £ 650A wooden Ba-bird depicted as a human-headed falcon wearing a wig and decorated in polychrome with a broad collar and a line of dots along the edge of each wing, the feet set apart on an integral rectangular base. The bird measuring 117 mm/4.6 ins. high. Some wear to the decoration but a piece of some charm, Late Dynastic Period, after 600 B.C. Originally acquired in an antiques shop in Cairo during the Second World War.EA15 A rare green faience glazed Ramesside New Kingdom ushabti : £ 425A rare green faience glazed Ramesside New Kingdom ushabti, measuring 142 mm/5.6 ins. high, with tripartite wig and the body covered with black hieroglyphs. The front worn destroying much of the detail, but the reverse in good condition, 19th Dynasty, 1295-1186 B.C.Reputedly originally acquired in Egypt during the 2nd World War.
If the front of this ushabti matched the back, then this would be an expensive item.
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EA12: £45 |
EA13: £125
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EA14: £650 |
EA14: Side view |
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EA15: £425
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EA15: Reverse |
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