PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD-2ND CENTURY B.C.

細節

AN EGYPTIAN PALE GREEN FAIENCE AMULET OF PTAICHOS
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD-2ND CENTURY B.C.
2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm.) high

來源

The Groppi Collection, Switzerland; acquired in the 1920s-1940s.
The Per-Neb Collection, Part I: Highly Important Egyptian Antiquities, Christie's, London, 9 December 1992, lot 51 (unsold).
The Groppi Collection, Christie's, London, 26 April 2012, lot 93.

展覽

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig; and Museum August Kestner Hannover, Köstlichkeiten aus Kairo!, 2008.

注意事項

This lot is offered without reserve.

榮譽呈獻

Laetitia Delaloye

ldelaloye@christies.com +44 (0)20 7752 3018

拍品專文

PUBLISHED:
C. Loeben et al, Köstlichkeiten aus Kairo! : die ägyptische Sammlung des Konditorei- und Kaffeehaus-Besitzers Achille Groppi (1890-1949), Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig und Museum August Kestner, Basel/ Hannover, 2008, p. 140, no. 93.(exhibition catalogue).
As Master of Animals, Ptaichos controlled menacing crocodiles and snakes. He was the young Horus, the regenerated Osiris, protected by the two sisters Isis and Nephthys.

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD-2ND CENTURY B.C.

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