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PROPERTY SOLD TO BENEFIT THE HANS GOEDICKE FOUNDATION FOR EGYPTOLOGY Lots 47-83 PROPERTY SOLD TO BENEFIT THE HANS GOEDICKE FOUNDATION FOR EGYPTOLOGY Lots 47-83 The Hans Goedicke Foundation at The Austrian Academy of Sciences has been set up to support academic research by Egyptologists regardless of gender, race or religion. Funding for projects is available to applicants under 40 years of age, who have a doctorate or its academic equivalent. Non-archaeological projects, whether in German, English or French, should fall within the areas of ancient Egyptian philology, interpretive or epigraphic (hieroglyphic or hieratic, not Demotic or Coptic), as well as studies in history, literature, religion, culture, art history or law, from the early Old Kingdom to the Roman period. Interested applicants should contact The Hans Goedicke Foundation at The Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna, Austria. Hans Geodicke studied Egyptology at the University of Vienna after WW II, travelling to Britain in the summer of 1948 to meet the renowned Egyptologists I.E.S. Edwards at the British Museum and W.B. Emery at University College London. On receiving his doctorate in 1948, he left for The Netherlands to study under Jozef Janssen. After a short period at the Museum of Fine Arts in Vienna, Dr Goedicke accepted an invitation in 1952 to join the new department of Egyptology at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Following The Suez Crisis (1956), he went to Egypt for fieldwork, encountering the private collector George Anastase Michaelides (1900-1973), who generously gave him pieces from his collection. The collection being offered below was formed between 1956-1958, at a time when it was still permissible to acquire antiquities in Egypt. Dr Goedicke joined the UNESCO campaign to save Abu Simbel and then went to Göttingen, before accepting an offer to teach at The John Hopkins University, Baltimore, where Egyptology was being offered for the first time. In 1968 his appointment as professor was the culmination of a career spanning three continents. He undertook epigraphic work in the region of the First Cataract and became field director of excavations at Giza in 1972 and 1974, as well as at Tell er Rataba. As Hans Goedicke now writes: "Nothing lasts forever and it is time for me to think ahead. My little collection of antiquities will pass into other hands and will hopefully be cherished. My family being Egyptology, I have established an international endowment for young Egyptologists to help them during the difficult initial steps in their academic pursuit, in gratitude for the wonderful life I have had in and through Egyptology."

TWO EGYPTIAN HIERATIC POTTERY OSTRACA

NEW KINGDOM, CIRCA 1550-1070 B.C.

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TWO EGYPTIAN HIERATIC POTTERY OSTRACA
NEW KINGDOM, CIRCA 1550-1070 B.C.
Inscribed in black, 4½ x 3¾ in. (11.5 x 9.5 cm.) max.; and a group of antiquities including a bronze jeweller's tool in the form of a lion head, 4th-1st Century B.C., 1¾ in. (4.4 cm.) long; an Egyptian bronze spearhead, the flange pierced, 2nd-1st millennium B.C., 8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high; a pair of bronze incense tongs in the form of hands, circa 6th-1st Century B.C., 9½ in. (22.9 cm.) long; a silex inscribed plaque, with two columns of hieroglyphs, probably post Old Kingdom or earlier, 2¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high; a quartzite head of a female, her wavy hair pulled back in a chignon, wearing a fillet in her hair, possibly Graeco-Roman, 3 in. (7.5 cm.) high; a bronze horned animal head attachment; a fragmentary green glazed composition head of Ptaichos surmounted by a scarab; a terracotta oil lamp in the shape of a fish, with stamped base, all circa 2nd Century B.C./3rd Century A.D.; a blue, yellow and white glass bracelet, Islamic period, 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) diam. (12)

Provenance

Acquired in Egypt between 1956-1958.
Sold to benefit The Hans Goedicke Foundation for Egyptology.

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium Please note that the lots of Iranian origin are subject to U.S. trade restrictions which currently prohibit the import into the United States. Similar restrictions may apply in other countries.

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Item six: H. Goedicke, 'Brief Communications: a puzzling inscription', Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 45, 1959, pp. 98-99, where he writes that it was "... designed for a King, giving part of his titulary ..."

See illustration on page 158 for lamp.

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