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AN EGYPTIAN MOSAIC GLASS FALCON HEAD INLAY
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AN EGYPTIAN MOSAIC GLASS FALCON HEAD INLAY

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN MOSAIC GLASS FALCON HEAD INLAY
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.
Facing left, face in opaque white with red eye, and translucent, amethyst pink detailed markings, wearing opaque yellow and translucent emerald green lappeted wig and traces of a translucent green and opaque turquoise banded collar, in opaque cobalt blue matrix
7/8 in. x 11/16 in. (2.3 cm. 1.8 cm.)
來源
The Groppi Collection, Switzerland; acquired in the 1920s-1940s.
展覽
Antikensmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig und Museum August Kestner Hannover, Köstlichkeiten aus Kairo!, 2008, no. 19.
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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PUBLISHED:
Exhibition catalogue, Köstlichkeiten aus Kairo!, Antikensmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig und Museum August Kestner Hannover, 2008, p. 71, no. 19.
W. Forman and S. Quirke, Hieroglyphs and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, London, 1996, p. 170.

Although the mosaic glass inlays of this period are usually syncretistic, this representation of the god Horus is typically Egyptian; falcon-headed with tripartite wig, with the anthropomorphic shoulder below.