拍品专文
For nearly identical examples for the tilapia and sleeping duck, see nos. 54 d and h in C. A. Andrews, Amulets of Ancient Egypt.
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MIDDLE KINGDOM TO THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 12TH DYNASTY-25TH DYNASTY, 1985-656 B.C.
细节
SIX EGYPTIAN STEATITE AND FAIENCE AMULETS
MIDDLE KINGDOM TO THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 12TH DYNASTY-25TH DYNASTY, 1985-656 B.C.
Including a sleeping duck, its underside with a hieroglyphic inscription reading "Amun-Re, the Living Lord;" a rectangular tabloid, one side with geometric ornament, the other with a cartouche; a tabloid with two rows of three scarabs, the underside with the cartouche of Thutmose III (r. 1479-1425), reading, "Men-Khepre-Re;" a Phoenician egyptianizing oval double sided tablet, one side engraved with a sphinx, a winged uraeus and the cartouche of Thutmose III, the other with three registers, one with a winged solar-disk, two with once-inlaid hieroglyphs; a tabloid with a tilapia fish in raised relief, the underside with a hieroglyphic inscription reading: "Bastet who gives goodness;" and the crocodile god Sobek, the underside with the cartouche of Amenemhat I (r. 1985-1773 B.C.)
Longest: 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm.) long
MIDDLE KINGDOM TO THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 12TH DYNASTY-25TH DYNASTY, 1985-656 B.C.
Including a sleeping duck, its underside with a hieroglyphic inscription reading "Amun-Re, the Living Lord;" a rectangular tabloid, one side with geometric ornament, the other with a cartouche; a tabloid with two rows of three scarabs, the underside with the cartouche of Thutmose III (r. 1479-1425), reading, "Men-Khepre-Re;" a Phoenician egyptianizing oval double sided tablet, one side engraved with a sphinx, a winged uraeus and the cartouche of Thutmose III, the other with three registers, one with a winged solar-disk, two with once-inlaid hieroglyphs; a tabloid with a tilapia fish in raised relief, the underside with a hieroglyphic inscription reading: "Bastet who gives goodness;" and the crocodile god Sobek, the underside with the cartouche of Amenemhat I (r. 1985-1773 B.C.)
Longest: 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm.) long
来源
with Elias S. David (1891-1969), New York; thence by descent.
注意事项
This lot is offered without reserve.