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NEW KINGDOM, 19TH-20TH DYNASTY, 1307-1070 B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE PECTORAL
NEW KINGDOM, 19TH-20TH DYNASTY, 1307-1070 B.C.
In the shape of a naos with a cavetto cornice, turquoise in color, with details in black, each side with an oval inscribed with four lines of hieroglyphs above a horizon sign, the obverse with the oval flanked by an Isis-knot and a Djed pillar with the text from Chapter 30B of the Book of the Dead, reading: "Iben (?): (My) heart of (my) mother, (my) heart, Do not (?)...stand (?) against me", the reverse with the oval flanked by the goddesses Isis and Nephthys with the text from Chapter 30B of the Book of the Dead reading: "Iben (?): (My) heart of, (my) mother, (my) heart, do not oppose the Tri-, bunal (?)," eight perforations along the upper end
2 ¾ in. (7 cm.) high
NEW KINGDOM, 19TH-20TH DYNASTY, 1307-1070 B.C.
In the shape of a naos with a cavetto cornice, turquoise in color, with details in black, each side with an oval inscribed with four lines of hieroglyphs above a horizon sign, the obverse with the oval flanked by an Isis-knot and a Djed pillar with the text from Chapter 30B of the Book of the Dead, reading: "Iben (?): (My) heart of (my) mother, (my) heart, Do not (?)...stand (?) against me", the reverse with the oval flanked by the goddesses Isis and Nephthys with the text from Chapter 30B of the Book of the Dead reading: "Iben (?): (My) heart of, (my) mother, (my) heart, do not oppose the Tri-, bunal (?)," eight perforations along the upper end
2 ¾ in. (7 cm.) high
Provenance
with Elias S. David (1891-1969), New York; thence by descent.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.