拍品專文
Item one: the sistrum was a musical rattle, and also a cult object and symbol of Hathor; a symbolic head of Hathor would originally have surmounted this handle and supported the rattle frame
細節
A pale green glazed composition sistrum handle
with central inscribed column possibly reading "Recitation: 'Happy Life' [for] the Lady of the House Ankh-nefer, beloved of Bastet", repeated on the reverse with "Life, Power and Protection to Ankh-nefer" added, scale pattern down the sides, glaze worn -- 3 7/8in. (9.8cm.) high, Ptolemaic, circa 300 B.C.; and a pale turquoise shabti for Ta-de-m-hotep, born of Nit-iy(?), with central panel of hieroglypic inscription, mounted -- 4 7/8in. (12.4cm.) high, Ptolemaic, 3rd-1st Century B.C.
See Colour Plate 3 (2)
with central inscribed column possibly reading "Recitation: 'Happy Life' [for] the Lady of the House Ankh-nefer, beloved of Bastet", repeated on the reverse with "Life, Power and Protection to Ankh-nefer" added, scale pattern down the sides, glaze worn -- 3 7/8in. (9.8cm.) high, Ptolemaic, circa 300 B.C.; and a pale turquoise shabti for Ta-de-m-hotep, born of Nit-iy(?), with central panel of hieroglypic inscription, mounted -- 4 7/8in. (12.4cm.) high, Ptolemaic, 3rd-1st Century B.C.
See Colour Plate 3 (2)