Lot 50
50
The Property of the late SIR SIDNEY NOLAN, O.M., A.C., C.B.E.
A SHEET ELECTRUM PENDANT OF HORUS THE FALCON, in profile to the right, wearing the Double Crown of Upper and Lower Egypt (wire plume now missing), with stippling on its legs and incised details of cheek and tail feathers, traces of eye inlay, suspension holes through the body, beaten over a core, 3¼in. (8.3cm.) high; and fourteen diminutive falcons, each facing left and pierced through, ½in. (1.2cm.) high av., in presentation case, Dynasty XII (1991-1783 B.C.) (15)

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A SHEET ELECTRUM PENDANT OF HORUS THE FALCON, in profile to the right, wearing the Double Crown of Upper and Lower Egypt (wire plume now missing), with stippling on its legs and incised details of cheek and tail feathers, traces of eye inlay, suspension holes through the body, beaten over a core, 3¼in. (8.3cm.) high; and fourteen diminutive falcons, each facing left and pierced through, ½in. (1.2cm.) high av., in presentation case, Dynasty XII (1991-1783 B.C.) (15)

Lot Essay

Cf. W. C. Hayes, The Scepter of Egypt, I, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990 (rev.), pp. 237-239, fig. 153 for an almost identical piece excavated from a Dynasty XII tomb at Thebes; J. Bourriau, Pharaohs and Mortals: Egyptian art in the Middle Kingdom, Cambridge, 1988, p. 155, no. 174, excavated from a Dynasty XII tomb at Abydos; A Private collection of Egyptian gold jewellery, Christie's London, 1 June 1979, lot 50; and W. M. Flinders Petrie, Amulets, Warminster, 1914, pl. XLV, no. 245 a.l. for another of the same design

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