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EGYPTIAN, GREEK, ROMAN AND LATER PERIODS
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A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN, GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES
EGYPTIAN, GREEK, ROMAN AND LATER PERIODS
Including an Egyptian wooden handle with duck head terminal, recesses for inlay, fragmentary, Dynasty XVIII, 5 in. (12.8 cm.) long; an Egyptian bronze mirror, the disc with ridged wooden handle (in two parts), 9¾ in. (24.8 cm.) high; an Egyptian plaited wooden beard with tang for attachment, traces of bitumen, 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm.) long; an alabaster kohl-pot with separate disc rim, 2 in. (5 cm.) high, all New Kingdom; an Egyptian bronze mummiform Osiris, wearing an atef-crown with uraeus, holding a flail and crook, circa 6th-4th Century B.C., 5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high; a group of Egyptian shabtis comprising two wooden shabtis, traces of painted decoration, 7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) high; and four pottery shabtis, 6 in. (15.2 cm.) high, all Dynasty XIX-XX; two fragmentary painted cartonnage panels, Ptolemaic Period, 13 in. (33 cm.) long max; a Greek ink inscribed terracotta ostrakon, circa 2nd-4th Century A.D.; two Attic red-figure lekythoi decorated with a standing draped youth and the figure of an himation clad woman, and an Attic black-figure lekythos with a quadriga, all fragmentary, late 6th-5th Century B.C., 4½ in. (11.4 cm.) high max.; four miniature Corinthian vessels comprising an aryballos with three helmeted warriors with round shields and spears, a piriform aryballos with running hounds on the shoulder, an alabastron and a small bowl, 7th-6th Century B.C., 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) high max.; a Greek marble amphoriskos, circa 4th Century B.C., 3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high; a Graeco-Roman marble clenched hand, 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) long; two Roman pale green glass unguentaria, 5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high max.; and three Roman glass bracelets, all 1st-3rd Century A.D.; and a group of miscellaneous antiquities and later items, some fragmentary, within a leather case(a lot)
EGYPTIAN, GREEK, ROMAN AND LATER PERIODS
Including an Egyptian wooden handle with duck head terminal, recesses for inlay, fragmentary, Dynasty XVIII, 5 in. (12.8 cm.) long; an Egyptian bronze mirror, the disc with ridged wooden handle (in two parts), 9¾ in. (24.8 cm.) high; an Egyptian plaited wooden beard with tang for attachment, traces of bitumen, 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm.) long; an alabaster kohl-pot with separate disc rim, 2 in. (5 cm.) high, all New Kingdom; an Egyptian bronze mummiform Osiris, wearing an atef-crown with uraeus, holding a flail and crook, circa 6th-4th Century B.C., 5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high; a group of Egyptian shabtis comprising two wooden shabtis, traces of painted decoration, 7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) high; and four pottery shabtis, 6 in. (15.2 cm.) high, all Dynasty XIX-XX; two fragmentary painted cartonnage panels, Ptolemaic Period, 13 in. (33 cm.) long max; a Greek ink inscribed terracotta ostrakon, circa 2nd-4th Century A.D.; two Attic red-figure lekythoi decorated with a standing draped youth and the figure of an himation clad woman, and an Attic black-figure lekythos with a quadriga, all fragmentary, late 6th-5th Century B.C., 4½ in. (11.4 cm.) high max.; four miniature Corinthian vessels comprising an aryballos with three helmeted warriors with round shields and spears, a piriform aryballos with running hounds on the shoulder, an alabastron and a small bowl, 7th-6th Century B.C., 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) high max.; a Greek marble amphoriskos, circa 4th Century B.C., 3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high; a Graeco-Roman marble clenched hand, 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) long; two Roman pale green glass unguentaria, 5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high max.; and three Roman glass bracelets, all 1st-3rd Century A.D.; and a group of miscellaneous antiquities and later items, some fragmentary, within a leather case(a lot)
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