FOUR EGYPTIAN GLASS ARCHITECTURAL PLAQUE FRAGMENTS
PROPERTY FROM A PRINCELY COLLECTION
AN EGYPTIAN MOSAIC GLASS FALCON HEAD INLAY

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.
7/8 in. x ¾ in. (2.3 cm. x 1.9 cm.)
來源
The Groppi Collection, Switzerland; acquired in the 1920s-1940s.
The Groppi Collection, Christie's, London, 26 April 2012, lot 87.
出版
W. Forman and S. Quirke, Hieroglyphs and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, London, 1996, p. 170.
Exhibition catalogue, Köstlichkeiten aus Kairo!, Antikensmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig und Museum August Kestner Hannover, 2008, p. 71, no. 19.
展覽
Antikensmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig und Museum August Kestner Hannover, Köstlichkeiten aus Kairo!, 2008, no. 19.

榮譽呈獻

Claudio Corsi
Claudio Corsi Specialist, Head of Department

拍品專文

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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