An extremely rare Late Period pottery vessel with face of god Bes- god of childbirth. Large bulbous body with outflared rim. Moulded in raised relief with face of Bes- outstanding detail, covered in a white wash & features decorated with dark purple paint. All original paint. White wash stained with a desert patina. Very rare in such high quality. Intact with no restoration or repairs.
A beautiful large blue faience scarab with hieroglyphs on the underside. Beautiful colour and detail. Minor glaze wear and small chip on underside, otherwise intact.
A rare original broad collar necklace, restrung with original faience beads and original carved serpentine terminals. Professionally mounted on an acrylic backing. Very rare are terminals for a broad collar necklace.
Serpentine terminals & faience pole beads date to the New Kingdom circa 1570-1070 BC. Small multi coloured beads from the Roman period circa 1st century AD. ...click for details
A beautiful large Egyptian bronze Osiris figure, swathed in a tight fitting garment and holding the crook and fail. Nice detail and superb lustrous brown patina, tip of beard broken otherwise intact. The high gloss is from the special wax used to preserve the bronze and can easily be removed.
A superb large bronze votive miniature coffin for a mongoose, originally would have contained a small bone fragment from a mongoose. Broken and loss to bottom half as can bee seen in images, otherwise intact, superb patina and nice detail.
A beautiful large blue green faience cippus amulet of Pataikos. Featured standing on crocodiles with knees bent, hands clenched on belly & strangling snakes . He wears a broad collar necklace and a scarab situated upon head. The underside inscribed with an eye of Horus glyph. The detail is high quality & the colour vibrant. His nose has a minor chip to the glaze and right crocodile head has been reattached, overall displays some glaze wear otherwise intact and superb. ...click for details
A superb ancient Egyptian brilliant blue faience amulet of Horus in falcon form. Depicted wearing incised plumed crown. Very fine detail, small chip to faience on tail feathers otherwise intact- very rare to find with crown intact.
Dating to third intermediate period circa 1070-664 BC.
A superb deep blue Egyptian faience amulet of Pataikos- protector of children. Pataikos posed with clenched fists and knees bent with a Scarab upon his head. Flanked on either side by two diety's (possibly Isis & Nephthys). The reverse decorated with a striding diety (probably the goddess Maat). Amulet in superb grade with suspension loop still intact.
Dating to the Third Intermediate Period circa 1070-664 BC. ...click for details
