Antiquities

Christie’s forthcoming Antiquities sale includes a selection of artefacts spanning the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean basin from the Paleolithic Period to the great migrations that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.

The sale will include a beautifully preserved polychrome relief fragment with an official and his wife Meritites (lot 10), from the collection of Swiss academic Prof. Dr. Roland Bay.

The Egyptian section is led by three Royal shabtis: a shabti for Akhenaten from the Amarna Period (lot 24), an extremely fine bright blue faience shabti for Sety I (lot 27) and a serpentine shabti for Nubian King Senkamenisken (lot 31).

The sale also features marble sculptures from the Roman period, including a torso of the mysterious Ephesian Artemis (lot 54) and a large marble satyr previously in the collection of the Mougins Museum of Classical Art (lot 67)

Another highlight is a rare survival from the Irish Bronze age: a bronze side-blow horn, reputedly found near Derry at the end of the 18th Century (lot 74).

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