1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
Details
A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN AMULETS
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
Comprising four green glazed composition amulets of deities (Sekhmet, Isis, Thoth, and Isis with Horus), Late Period, circa 6th-4th Century B.C., 5.5 cm. high max.; a dark green glazed composition amulet of a menat-counterpoise with a Sekhmet pectoral finial, Late Period, 2.7 cm. high; and two green glazed composition amulets of the Upper and Lower Egypt crowns, Ptolemaic Period, 3 cm. high max. (15)
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
Comprising four green glazed composition amulets of deities (Sekhmet, Isis, Thoth, and Isis with Horus), Late Period, circa 6th-4th Century B.C., 5.5 cm. high max.; a dark green glazed composition amulet of a menat-counterpoise with a Sekhmet pectoral finial, Late Period, 2.7 cm. high; and two green glazed composition amulets of the Upper and Lower Egypt crowns, Ptolemaic Period, 3 cm. high max. (15)
Provenance
Acquired in the 1960s or early 1970s.
Exhibited
Rotterdam, Historisch Museum, Bezeten Bezit, Keuzetentoonstelling uit de verzameling van Mevrouw Elias-Vaes te Rotterdam, exhibition catalogue, 18 April - 1 August 1970, nos. 680, 682, 683.
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Please note that the illustration of this lot is wrongly numbered 11 in the catalogue.
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