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Lot 239

An Egyptian glazed composition amulet of Isis

3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An Egyptian glazed composition amulet of Isis
Late Period, 26th Dynasty, circa 664-525 B.C.
Striding with her left foot forward, wearing a stepped crown, the hieroglyph of her shortened name, over an incised tripartite wig surmounted by a uraeus on her forehead, the back pillar reaching halfway up the head and ending in a rounded top, pierced for suspension, 5.3cm high

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Provenance:
Lodewick collection, Belgium, acquired in the 1960s-1970s.
Dr Jan Beekmans (1927-2008) collection, Broken, Germany.
Private collection, Europe, acquired from the above in October 1999.

Published:
C.A.R. Andrews and J. van Dijk (ed.), Objects for Eternity: Egyptian Antiquities from the W. Arnold Meijer Collection, Mainz, 2006, p. 222, no. 3.30b.

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