Lot 395
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AN EGYPTIAN FRAGMENTARY DARK GREY STEATITE CIPPUS OF HORUS
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AN EGYPTIAN FRAGMENTARY DARK GREY STEATITE CIPPUS OF HORUS

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 304-30 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN FRAGMENTARY DARK GREY STEATITE CIPPUS OF HORUS
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 304-30 B.C.
The magical stele modelled in high relief, with a mask of Bes at the top protecting the Horus child standing below, the divine child wearing wide collar, holding scorpion and serpents to the side, an antelope below, a wadj-column surmounted by a Horus-falcon with double- plumed headdress to the left, inscribed in hieroglyphs on the reverse, top and side with protective magical spells, the upper register on the reverse with a mythological scene framed at the top by a winged solar-disc, showing ithyphallic Amun before his shrine, followed by a deer with a bird sitting on its back, Thoth and another deity, over the convex top hieroglyphs
6¼ in. (16 cm.) high. max.
Provenance
Formerly in an English private collection.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

The text on the front is the beginning of Spell V according to the publication of the Metternich Stele, also known as Magical Text I, line I onwards in H. Altenmueller, Der Socle Béhague und ein statuentorso in Wien, p. 16.

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