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The Resandro Collection of Ancient Art (Lots 14-49)
Lot 32*

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

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Seven Egyptian faience amulets

Late Period-Ptolemaic Period, circa 664-30 B.C.
Comprising a turquoise menat counterpoise with lion goddess' head, wearing a sun-disc, 6.7cm high; a brown and blue glazed headrest amulet with Bes face, 4.4cm wide; a turquoise amulet of seated Mut, 5.2cm high; a blue amulet of standing Sekhmet, 4.2cm high; a black amulet of striding Anubis, 4.2cm high; a turquoise four-sided Bes, 3.6cm high; and a turquoise faience Pataikos, with details inscribed on the underside of the base, 3.6cm high (7)

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Provenance:
Resandro collection, Europe, primarily formed late 1960s-1997 (R-660 (HA 192), R-603 (HA 232), R-535 (HA 88), R-540 (HA 119), R-544 (HA 100), R-556 (HA 187), R-560 (HA 209)).

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

Headrest amulets were 'intended magically to raise up the head of the deceased in resurrection, just as the sun god was raised above the eastern horizon each morning' (C. Andrews, Amulets of Ancient Egypt, London, 1994, p. 95).

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