Lot Essay
Cf. Cooney, 140 for item two
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EGYPTIAN MONOCHROME AND MOSAIC GLASS INLAYS
circa 4th Century B.C./2nd Century A.D.
COBALT BLUE GLASS BES PLAQUE, depicting the feather crowned god standing with hands clasped and wearing Parthian-style baggy trousers -- 2cm. high, 3rd-1st Century B.C.; a blue glass inlay of a falcon-headed deity; two blue glass flat-backed figures of Isis and Nephthys respectively; a blue glass amulet of Bes; and a fragmentary blue glass crocodile, 6.7cm. high max., Graeco-Roman (6)
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COBALT BLUE GLASS BES PLAQUE, depicting the feather crowned god standing with hands clasped and wearing Parthian-style baggy trousers -- 2cm. high, 3rd-1st Century B.C.; a blue glass inlay of a falcon-headed deity; two blue glass flat-backed figures of Isis and Nephthys respectively; a blue glass amulet of Bes; and a fragmentary blue glass crocodile, 6.7cm. high max., Graeco-Roman (6)