Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

Lot 341

1 May 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£8,000 - £10,000

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Antiquities specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

An Egyptian steatite cippus of Horus
Late Dynastic Period, circa 664-332 B.C.
The child Horus depicted in relief standing on two overlapping crocodiles, holding snakes and scorpions aloft, with a lion hanging from his right hand and an antelope from his left, udjat eyes at the very top, the reverse and sides with five rows of protective figures and three rows of hieroglyphs below, 3in (7.6cm) high, mounted

Footnotes

Provenance:
German private collection, the Ruhr.
C. Tautenhahn Collection, Houston, Texas, USA, formed prior to 1980.

Additional information

Bid now on these items

A Mesopotamian clay cuneiform foundation cone with dedication inscription of King Lipit-Ishtar of Isin

A small Mesopotamian clay cuneiform foundation cone inscribed for King Sin-Kashid of Uruk

A Neo-Assyrian or Neo-Hittite bronze helmet with pelta-shaped cheek-pieces

An Attic pottery tankard with geometric decoration

A Greek pottery alabastron in the form of a greaved leg

A Greek terracotta female figure with a bird perched on her shoulder