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LATE NEW KINGDOM, CIRCA 1300-1100 B.C.
Details
A green glazed composition openwork ring
Late New Kingdom, circa 1300-1100 B.C.
Decorated with two conjoined lotus flowers and a squatting figure of the falcon-headed sun god, Re-Horakhty, holding a maat-feather; a green glazed composition amulet of the sky-goddess in the form of a sow suckling piglets which represent the stars, right ear missing; another of a reclining lion, suspension loop missing, 1¼in. (3.2cm.) long av.; a hare, 7/8in. (2.2cm.) long; Isis suckling Harpocrates, mounted; and a turquoise amulet of a striding lion-headed goddess wearing a uraeus and holding a papyrus sceptre, with an inscribed back-pillar, minor chip to pillar, mounted, 1 5/8in. (4.1cm.) high av., amulets Late Period (712-332 B.C.) (6)
Late New Kingdom, circa 1300-1100 B.C.
Decorated with two conjoined lotus flowers and a squatting figure of the falcon-headed sun god, Re-Horakhty, holding a maat-feather; a green glazed composition amulet of the sky-goddess in the form of a sow suckling piglets which represent the stars, right ear missing; another of a reclining lion, suspension loop missing, 1¼in. (3.2cm.) long av.; a hare, 7/8in. (2.2cm.) long; Isis suckling Harpocrates, mounted; and a turquoise amulet of a striding lion-headed goddess wearing a uraeus and holding a papyrus sceptre, with an inscribed back-pillar, minor chip to pillar, mounted, 1 5/8in. (4.1cm.) high av., amulets Late Period (712-332 B.C.) (6)
Provenance
Item one (ring): Bought by Edward Towry-Whyte at Sotheby's, 15 December 1925.
Items four (hare) and five (Isis): "Tel Basta, July 1883". Given to Edward Towry-Whyte by Hilton Price.
Item six (lion-headed goddess): "Menhit, 1831". Given to Edward Towry-Whyte by Hilton Price.
Items four (hare) and five (Isis): "Tel Basta, July 1883". Given to Edward Towry-Whyte by Hilton Price.
Item six (lion-headed goddess): "Menhit, 1831". Given to Edward Towry-Whyte by Hilton Price.