Lot Essay
Cf. W. C. Hayes, The Scepter of Egypt, II, Cambridge, 1959, p. 17, fig. 6 for similar head to item one.
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MIDDLE KINGDOM/SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XII-XVII (1991-1550 B.C.)
Details
AN EGYPTIAN TERRACOTTA BUST OF A 'HYKSOS' FEMALE IDOL
MIDDLE KINGDOM/SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XII-XVII (1991-1550 B.C.)
Her hair worn in two flaring bunches surmounted by a fillet with three pendent ribbons at the back, wearing dotted necklace, with slit eyes and other details incised, mounted; and a Romano-Egyptian terracotta figure of a bearded 'Oriental' ithyphallic man, the squatting figure with vessel between his knees, probably circa 2nd Century B.C./A.D.
2 1/8 in. (5.3 cm.) and 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) high respectively (2)
MIDDLE KINGDOM/SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XII-XVII (1991-1550 B.C.)
Her hair worn in two flaring bunches surmounted by a fillet with three pendent ribbons at the back, wearing dotted necklace, with slit eyes and other details incised, mounted; and a Romano-Egyptian terracotta figure of a bearded 'Oriental' ithyphallic man, the squatting figure with vessel between his knees, probably circa 2nd Century B.C./A.D.
2 1/8 in. (5.3 cm.) and 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) high respectively (2)
Provenance
Desmond Morris collection.
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