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The Resandro Collection of Ancient Art (Lots 14-49)
Lot 31*

Five Egyptian turquoise faience amulets
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22 November – 9 December 2024, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, New Bond Street

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Five Egyptian turquoise faience amulets

Late Period-early Ptolemaic Period, circa 664-200 B.C.
Comprising a triad amulet, with Horus the Child flanked by Isis and Nephthys, 2.3cm high; an amulet of striding ram-headed Khnum, 3.2cm high; a pale turquoise amulet of double-sided Bes, 3.1cm high; an amulet of a pair of Ba-birds, 3cm high; and a blue and turquoise amulet of an ibis with a maat feather under its beak, 2cm high (5)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Resandro collection, Europe, primarily formed late 1960s-1997 (R-516 (HA 113), R-546 (HA 5), R-554 (HA 169), R-674 (HA 70), R-565 (HA 10)).

Published:
I. Grimm-Stadelmann (ed.), Aesthetic Glimpses, Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012.

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