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.)

Provenance

The Groppi Collection, Switzerland; acquired in the 1920s-1940s.

Exhibited

Antikensmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig und Museum August Kestner Hannover, Köstlichkeiten aus Kairo!, 2008, no. 19.

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Lot Essay

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.

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