Lot 2
2
A BONE HANDLE IN THE FORM OF A HORSE'S HEAD, with suspension loop through nostril and mouth, flattened ears, with striated mane and wearing a collar decorated with incised bands and roundels, split at one end

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A BONE HANDLE IN THE FORM OF A HORSE'S HEAD, with suspension loop through nostril and mouth, flattened ears, with striated mane and wearing a collar decorated with incised bands and roundels, split at one end
Ptolemaic - early Roman
4¼in. (10.7cm.) long

Lot Essay

Cf. O. W. Muscarella (ed.), Ancient Art: The Norbert Schimmel Collection, Mainz, 1974, no. 234. Representations in the round of horses rarely occur in Egyptian art; the above example may have been the handle of a whip

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