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SOTHEBY'S ANTIQUITIES AND ISLAMIC ART NEW YORK JUNE 4TH 1998 THIS CATALOG CONTAINS 200 PAGES AND 416 LOTS INCLUDING: ANTIQUITIES AND WESTERN ASIATIC SEALS FROM THE ERLENMEYER COLLECTION, AN EGYPTIAN SERPENTINE USHABTI OF AMENHOTEP III FROM THE COLLECTION OF RENE WITHOFS, : PHOENICIAN, ROMAN, BYZANTINE AND ISLAMIC GLASS, EGYPTIAN, GREEK, ETRUSCAN, ROMAN AND BYZANTINE ANTIQUITIES, JEWELERY, B-7 S-5 HIGHLIGHTS:
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A Black Granite or Basalt Relief Fragment, 30th Dynasty/early Ptolemaic Period, reign of Nectanebo II/Ptolemy I, 360-282 B.C., finely carved in shallow relief with the head of a queen or goddess facing right, and wearing a dress with narrow raised collar and tripartite wig with vulture headdress, her face with round chin, outlined lips, straight nose, and long eyebrow and cosmetic line in relief,
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A Pair of Polychrome Limestone Reliefs, 6th Dynasty, late in the reign of Pepi II, circa 2150 B.C., each finely carved in sunk relief with the figure of the owner, Ankh-nebef, striding and holding a long walking stick and a scepter, and wearing a kilt with triangular front, broad belt looped at the waist, bracelets, broad collar, and short beard, the figure on the left wearing a shoulder-length wi
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A Bronze Figure of Pantheistic Bes, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C., of fantastical form striding on a rectangular base with the left forearm extended to hold an implement, with erect phallus, his engraved wings outstretched with additional attached human arms with clenched fists, and wearing shoulder-straps decorated with gold inlay and centering an engraved head of a lion, his body engraved with a ne
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A Limestone Relief Fragment, late 25th/early 26th Dynasty, circa 680-640 B.C., probably from the tomb of Mentuemhat, Mayor of Thebes, finely carved in shallow relief with a procession of men striding to left and carrying tables on their shoulders laden with royal paraphernalia, each man wearing a short kilt with knotted belt, short beard, and round wig, their left hands supporting the tables, thre
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A Hellenistic Marble Figure of Aphrodite, circa 2nd Century B.C., the goddess standing with her weight on the right leg and resting her raised left foot on the neck of a swan, the goddess leaning forward and reaching down with her right hand to remove her sandal, a support draped with her cloak and a fragmentary rudder to her left, her face with small mouth with full lips and deeply indented pupil
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A Greek Terracotta Protome of Demeter, Boeotia, 470-460 B.C., wearing a peplos and low polos, her face with contemplative expression, slightly smiling mouth, dimpled chin, full lips, and straight nose, the wavy hair parted in the center and falling in long ribbed plaits to the shoulders; remains of white slip ornament. Height 137/8 in. (35.2 cm.)
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A Bronze Figure of Aphrodite, Roman Imperial, circa 2nd Century A.D., the goddess standing on a high rectangular pedestal supported on four lion-paw feet, a flight of steps before her, a mirror probably once held in her right hand, and wearing a necklace with six pendants, gold earrings with garnets and pearls, and crescentic diadem engraved with scrolling vine, her finely engraved hair parted in
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A Greek Bronze Figure of a Kore, circa 3rd quarter of the 6th Century B.C., striding to left on a small rectangular base with her body and head turned to the front, her hands held before her, and wearing a long chiton with belt at the waist, short symmetrical himation of finely pleated folds with small weights at the lower hem and two floral brooches at her shoulders, narrow finely engraved neckla
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A Serpentine Ushabti of Amenhotep III, 18th Dynasty, reign of Amenhotep III, 1390-1353 B.C., his hands emerging from his cloak and holding ankh-signs, and wearing a long fragmentary beard and the nemes-headcloth with uraeus and queue, his face with full lips, broad forehead, and wide-set eyes with long contoured eyebrows and cosmetic lines, six columns of inscription, including the king's prenomen
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A Roman Marble Figure of a Man, circa 1st/2nd Century A.D., standing with his weight on the right leg, and wearing a chiton and himation falling in long folds from his left shoulder and covering his arms. Height 57 in. (144.8 cm.)
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A Marble Torso of Herakles, Roman Imperial, 1st/2nd Century A.D., standing with his weight on the right leg with his muscular body turned to his right, the lion skin tied in the Herakles knot on his chest and covering his back, the ends of his fillet falling onto the nape of the neck. Height 24 in. (61 cm.)
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A Granite Torso of Nectanebo I, 30th Dynasty, reign of Nectanebo I, 380-362 B.C., wearing the nemes-headcloth with finely fluted lappets and fragmentary queue, the square-topped back-pillar carved in sunk relief with two columns of inscription comprising the beginning of the royal titulary. Height 12 in. (30.5 cm.)
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An Attic Black-figure Panel Amphora, circa 540-530 B.C., with echinus foot, cylindrical handles, and flaring mouth, side A painted with Theseus slaying the Minotaur, the Athenian prince grasping the Cretan monster by the neck and wielding his sword in the right hand, the scene flanked by two maidens and two youths, probably part of the group sent as tribute by King Aegeus of Athens to King Minos,
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An Indurated Limestone Head of a Man, early Ptolemaic Period, circa 304-250 B.C., his idealizing face with full lips deeply drilled at the corners and almond-shaped eyes with finely contoured upper eyelids in relief. Height 83/4 in. (22.2 cm.)
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A Bronze Figure of a Cat, 22nd/26th Dynasty, 944-525 B.C., seated with the tail curled around to the right forepaw, and wearing a finely engraved collar with Eye of Horus and neb-sign pendant on the breast, with engraved whiskers, broad cheekbones, large round almond-shaped eyes, and pierced striated ears. Height 415/16 in. (12.5 cm.)
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A Gilt-bronze Figure of a Cat, 22nd/30th Dynasty, 944-342 B.C., seated in an alert attitude with the head turned slightly to the left, with long straight forelegs and slender tail curled around to the front, the head cast separately from the body, one amber-glass eye remaining. Height 175/8 in. (44.8 cm.)
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A Marble Portrait Head of a Man, Roman Imperial, circa late 1st Century B.C./early 1st Century A.D., probably a prince of the Julio-Claudian family, perhaps Augustus, of monumental scale, his head turned to his left, his face with prominent chin, broad cheekbones, slightly aquiline nose, and furrowed brow, the hair roughly worked, the crown of the head probably completed in another material. Heigh
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An Attic Red-figure Hydria, circa mid 5th Century B.C., with disk foot and overhanging rim, the shoulder painted with the battle between Theseus and the Minotaur, the young Attic prince advancing towards and grasping the horn of the Cretan bull-headed monster in his left hand, and wearing a tunic and short chiton, the Minotaur falling back on one knee and grabbing the end of Theseus's sword, three
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A Greek Terracotta Figure of a Dancing Lady, circa mid 4th Century B.C., stepping to her right in a lively attitude with the left foot crossed in front of the right, and wearing pointed shoes, long chiton, and enveloping mantle leaving only the upper part of her face visible, the rectangular pedestal rounded at the back; traces of white gesso and red pigment, a large rectangular vent behind, open
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A Marble Portrait Head of a Greek Poet or Philosopher, Roman Imperial, circa 1st Century A.D., perhaps a portrait of Euripides, inspired by a work of the late 5th or 4th Century B.C., with contemplative expression, full rounded beard of unruly overlapping curls, thick moustache, and deep-set eyes beneath the furrowed brow, his long wavy hair radiating from the crown and falling in wavy locks over
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A Marble Figure of Silenus, Roman Imperial, 1st/2nd Century A.D., probably inspired by a Hellenistic original, the old satyr standing with his weight on the left leg, his sagging flesh covered with tufts of hair, the ends of his deeply drilled beard falling onto the chest, and wearing a panther-skin cloak draped over his shoulders and falling down his back with one paw draped over his right thigh.
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An Assyrian Gypsum Relief Fragment, probably from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, reign of Ashurbanipal, 668-631 B.C., finely carved with the left foot of a royal or divine figure. 43/4 by 11 in. (12.1 by 27.9 cm.)
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A Bronze Head of a Cat, 22nd/26th Dynasty, 944-525 B.C., from a life-size figure, the powerfully modeled head with finely striated whiskers, prominent cheekbones, large eyes probably once inlaid, and erect pierced ears with striated markings. Height 47/8 in. (12.4 cm.)
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A Corinthian Pottery Column Krater, circa 560 B.C., decorated in two registers, the upper register painted on one side with two converging chariots, hoplites in combat in between, Corinthian inscriptions in the field, the other side painted with three horsemen galloping to left, crouching confronted panthers in the handle zones, the lower register painted with alternating grazing stags and stridin
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A Bronze Figure of Fortuna, Roman Imperial, circa 2nd Century A.D., the goddess standing on a high square pedestal with her weight on the right leg and head turned to her right, and wearing sandals, short-sleeved chiton with silver buttons on the sleeves, peplos with silver buttons on the shoulders, and high crescentic diadem, and modius, a cornucopia cradled in her left arm, her face with full pa
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A Greek Terracotta Figure of Apollo, circa 3rd Century B.C., the youthful god stepping forward in a lively pose with his hands held up to hold a kithara, and wearing a wreath and chlamys draped over his shoulders and back of the head; remains of white and red pigment, a small oval vent-hole behind. Height 123/4 in. (32.4 cm.)
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A Granite Head of a Man, late Ptolemaic Period, circa 100-30 B.C., with trapezoidal back pillar, his face with full lips, wide straight nose, and prominent round almond-shaped eyes with heavy upper lids, his short wavy hair left unpolished. Height 61/4 in. (15.9 cm.)
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An Indurated Limestone Mask from a Sarcophagus, early Ptolemaic Period, circa 304-200 B.C., the idealizing face with full lips rounded at the corners, broad nose, and finely carved almond-shaped eyes with long contoured eyebrows in relief, the cosmetic lines in relief along the lower edges, and wearing a smooth wig passing behind the ears, the irises and pupils painted in black. Height 121/4 in. (
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An Indurated Limestone Figure of a Lion, Ptolemaic/early Roman Period, circa 304 B.C.-100 A.D., couchant on a rectangular base rounded at the back, his tail curled over the right hind leg, the stylized mane and ruff with incised detail. Length 20 in. (50.8 cm.)
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A Mesopotamian Core-formed Glass Amphoriskos, circa 9th/8th Century B.C., of slender ovoid form with pointed base, twin stylized duck-head handles, slightly tapering cylindrical neck, and rounded rim, the matrix, nearly black in appearance, decorated with an opaque white feather pattern. Height 41/4 in. (10.7 cm.)
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A Red Granite Relief Fragment, 26th/30th Dynasty, 664-342 B.C., finely carved in sunk relief with the goddess Neith enthroned, a papyrus scepter in her left hand, an ankh in the right, and wearing a long close-fitting dress with narrow collar and the crown of Lower Egypt, her idealized face with long cosmetic line in relief, Osiris or Ptah standing on a dais behind her, a papyrus plant on the dais
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A Roman Mosaic Panel, circa 1st/2nd Century A.D., depicting a torpedo fish and two striped bream(?) swimming to left against a white ground and within a black border, the stone and glass tesserae in shades of porphyry red, salmon pink, lapis-lazuli blue, gray, giallo antico, aquamarine, and yellow. As framed 111/2 by 261/2 in. (29.2 by 67.3 cm.)
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A Marble Cinerarium, Roman Imperial, Julio-Claudian, 1st half of the 1st Century A.D., of quadrangular form, the tabula ansata inscribed in Latin "Dis Man., Ti. Claudi, Aug. L., Hermae," and surmounted by confronted winged and goat-horned lions each resting a paw on the head of a ram, a scallop shell containing the busts of a man and woman below, his arm around her shoulder, the shell supported by
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A Polychrome Wall Painting, 18th Dynasty, period of Tuthmosis III/Tuthmosis IV, circa 1479-1390 B.C., painted with the figure of a man facing left and bearing a floral offering in his raised hands, and wearing a diaphanous garment and short wig with curls showing on the forehead, his face with full lips, straight nose, and large eye with finely arched eyebrow. 11 by 113/8 in. (27.9 by 28.9 cm.)
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A Fragmentary Black Basalt Offering Stand, Late Period, 716-30 B.C., of tapering columnar form resting on a high square plinth, a column of inscription concerning offerings carved in sunk relief on each side. Height 191/2 in. (49.5 cm.)
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A Schist Leg of a Sphinx, 26th Dynasty, reign of Apries, 589-570 B.C., from an over-lifesize sphinx of the king, the left foreleg resting on a rectangular plinth finely carved in sunk relief with and inscription including the prenomen and nomen of Apries, part of his striated headdress remaining. 201/4 by 93/4 by 71/2 in. (51.4 by 24.8 by 19.1 cm.)
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A Roman Mosaic Panel, circa 1st/2nd Century A.D., depicting a fruiting branch set within a square panel framed by a wave border, the tesserae in shades of porphyry red, green, salmon pink, and black on a white ground. 191/4 by 181/4 in. (48.9 by 46.4 cm.)
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A Marble Portrait Head of a Man, Roman Republic, circa 3rd quarter of the 1st Century B.C., turned slightly to his right, his rugged face with down-turned mouth, pronounced lower lip, deep furrows flanking the large aquiline nose, large eyes with bushy eyebrows, furrowed brow, and short hair receding above the temples. Height 113/8 in. (28.9 cm.)
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A Pale-green Faience Sistrum Handle, 26th Dynasty, period of King Amasis, 570-526 B.C., surmounted by a capital in the form of a janus head of the goddess Hathor, the base of the rattle finely decorated in high relief on each side with a uraeus resting on a cavetto cornice, the cylindrical stem molded in sunk relief on both sides with a column of inscription including the prenomen and nomen of Ama
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A Syro-Hittite Terracotta Figure of a Goddess, circa 2000-1500 B.C., standing with her hands held underneath her breasts, and wearing a long robe flaring at her feet, applied bracelets, elaborate necklace, high choker, and tall slightly flaring crown with applied ornaments, her face with beaked nose, large oval eyes with deeply recessed pupils, and finely striated eyebrows. Height 143/8 in. (36.5
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A Terracotta Figure of Aphrodite, circa 1st Century B.C., the goddess standing with her weight on the left leg, and wearing a long diaphanous chiton falling from her right shoulder, her himation draped in long fluted folds behind her, her coiffure parted in the center, swept back to a chignon above the nape of the neck, and bound in a broad fillet, a small ornament above the forehead, four long co
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A Porphyry Jar, Predynastic Period, Nagada II, circa 3500-3200 B.C., with flat base, broad pyriform body with solid cylindrical handles, and broad disk rim deeply undercut at the shoulder. Width 101/2 in. (26.7 cm.)
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An Alabaster Bust of Zeus Serapis, Alexandrian, circa late 2nd Century A.D., inspired by the monumental cult statue attributed to the Greek sculptor Bryaxis, circa late 4th/early 3rd Century B.C., his left arm raised, and wearing a chiton and himation, his broad face with powerful expression, thick elaborately curled beard falling in two vertical columns of curls over the chin, and long wavy hair
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A Polychrome Wood Farming Scene, 11th/12th Dynasty, 2081-1759 B.C., comprising a man wearing a kilt and short wig guiding a plow drawn by two yoked cows with black spotted markings and details. Length 133/4 in. (34.9 cm.)
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An Attic Black-figure Siana Cup, circa 560-550 B.C., with pedestal foot with black-painted prong and encircling band underneath, painted on one side with five mounted warriors galloping to left, each holding a spear, and on the other side with three pairs of warriors in combat, each wearing a crested Corinthian helmet and holding shields and spears, three of the warriors wearing greaves, another w
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A Gold Snake Bracelet, circa 1st Century B.C., of lozenge section beveled at the corners, the terminals each in the form of the head of a serpent with large domed eyes and deeply engraved and stippled detail, lozenge markings and striations underneath. Width 23/4 in. (7 cm.)
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A Polychrome Wood Mummy Mask, 12th/13th Dynasty, 1938-1640 B.C., with full outlined lips indented at the corners, slightly aquiline nose with flaring nostrils, wide-set round almond-shaped eyes with pronounced inner corners and long eyebrows and cosmetic lines, and large boldly carved ears, the striped wig painted over linen and gesso and bound in a floral diadem. Height 131/8 in. (33.3 cm.)
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A Hellenistic Marble Head of Aphrodite, circa late 4th/3rd Century B.C., the goddess turned to her left, her face with mouth indented at the corners and deep-set eyes, the nose apparently once restored in antiquity, her ears pierced, the centrally parted wavy hair bound in a chignon above the nape of the neck, a small mortise at the center of the diadem; traces of red pigment on the eyebrows. Heig
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A Bronze Military Diploma, Roman Imperial, reign of Antoninus Pius, circa 143 A.D., comprising two tablets of rectangular form, a Latin inscription on the inner and outer faces, two pierced holes for attachment running through the centers of both tablets, one tablet with an additional pierced hole at the corner. Each tablet approximately 41/2 by 53/4 in. (11.4 by 14.6 cm.)
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Four Limestone Dummy Canopic Jars, 3rd Intermediate Period, 1075-716 B.C., each with pyriform body, the lids each in the form of one of the Fours sons of Horus. Heights approximately 151/4 to 123/4 in. (38.7 to 32.4 cm.)
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A Marble Head of Hermes, Roman Imperial, circa 2nd Century A.D., turned to his right and wearing a petasos with fragmentary brim, his face with parted lips, and finely delineated almond-shaped eyes, his thick wavy hair falling in a mass of unruly voluted locks over the temples and nape of the neck. Height 121/4 in. (31.1 cm.)
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An Akkadian Serpentine Cylinder Seal with Presentation Scene, circa 2400-2200 B.C., carved with a bearded god wearing a flounced robe and multi-horned headdress seated on a throne, three similarly dressed deities approaching him, the first leading the second by the hand, the third followed by a goddess with distinct headdress, a star, a crescent, and a spouted vessel in the field. 3.5 by 2.3 cm.
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An Ottoman Tile Panel, Egypt or Turkey, circa 19th Century, painted in 16th-Century Iznik style in cobalt blue, emerald green, turquoise, tomato red, and black, with an elaborate arabesque niche containing richly scrolling tulips, lotus blossoms, hyacinths, carnations, and other flowers emerging from three vases, similar foliate motifs and ogival medallions in the border. 713/4 by 453/4 in. (182.3
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A Granite Hand of a King, 19th/20th Dynasty, 1292-1075 B.C., from a monumental statue, probably of Ramesses II, holding a short stave with fragmentary inscription carved on each end, and wearing a wide beaded bracelet ornamented with a cartouche flanked by addorsed uraei crowned by sun-disks. Length 93/4 in. (24.8 cm.)
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A Roman Marble Torso of Herakles, circa 1st/2nd Century A.D., probably inspired by a Greek sculpture of the 4th Century B.C., standing with his weight on the left leg, the lion skin draped over his left forearm. Height 19 in. (48.3 cm.)
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An Encaustic Mummy Portrait of a Woman, Roman Period, circa 2nd quarter of the 4th Century A.D., wearing a tunic with clavicles ornamented in white, gold necklace with large circular medallion, necklace of gold and blue glass beads, and pendant earrings, her wavy hair parted in the center. 155/8 by 75/8 in. (39.7 by 19.4 cm.)
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An Indurated Limestone Head of a Man, 30th Dynasty/early Ptolemaic Period, circa 380-250 B.C., with trapezoidal back-pillar, his youthful face with prominent mouth deeply indented at the corners, long nose with wide nostrils, and large eyes with long tapering eyebrows and cosmetic lines contoured in relief. Height 31/2 in. (8.9 cm.)
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A Bronze Figure of an Ibis, 22nd/26th Dynasty, 944-525 B.C., sacred bird of the god Thoth, with finely engraved markings on the legs, striated tail-feathers, grooved beak, and large eyes recessed for inlay. Length 61/2 in. (16.5 cm.)
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An Agate Table Leg, circa 2nd Century A.D., in the form of the head of a lion emerging from a cabriole support, a fragmentary voluted ornament behind, with bared teeth, deep-set eyes, and gnarled brow. Height 71/4 in. (18.4 cm.)
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An Attic Black-figure Plemochoe, circa late 6th Century B.C., with high splayed foot and broad lentoid body with deep rim turned down, the shoulder painted with an encircling band of alternating red and black tongues between linear and dotted borders. Diameter 75/16 in. (18.6 cm.)
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A Byzantine Mosaic Panel, circa 4th/6th Century A.D., depicting a deer-like animal with plump tail standing and facing right, rich scrolling foliage in the field, the tesserae in shades of blue, brown, and salmon pink on a white ground. 44 by 39 in. (111.8 by 99.1 cm.)
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A Marble Torso of a Youth, circa 1st Century A.D., probably after a Greek sculpture of the mid-5th Century B.C., turned slightly to his left, his hair falling in a short rectangular plait below the nape of the neck and bound in a fillet with ends falling over the shoulder and chest. Height 13 in. (33 cm.)
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A Byzantine Mosaic Panel, circa 4th/6th Century A.D., depicting a deer-like animal with plump tail facing left, flowering plants in the field, the tesserae in shades of ochre, brown, and salmon pink on a white ground. 39 by 331/2 in. (99.1 by 85.1 cm.)
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An Attic Red-figure Column Krater, circa 460 B.C., painted on one side with four youths, one youth playing the pipes for two of his dancing companions, another youth at left observing the merriment, sashes hanging behind them, a frieze of intertwined festooned lotus buds on the neck, and painted on the other side with three himation-clad youths, two holding staffs, a strigil and an aryballos in th
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An Alabaster Lidded Vase, 12th Dynasty, period of Sesostris I, 1918-1875 B.C., of slightly flaring cylindrical form with flat offset rim and shallow domed cover, one side carved between was-scepters with the nomen of the king and the inscription "Beloved of Ptah . . ." Total height 33/16 in. (8.1 cm.)
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A Roman Giallo Antico Herm Head of Dionysos, circa 1st Century A.D., in archaistic style, with long symmetrically curled beard and moustache, straight nose with flaring nostrils, and recessed eyes, his centrally parted wavy hair bound in a fillet falling over the forehead and a massive wreath of ivy leaves and berries, two long tassels falling onto his chest. Height 81/8 in. (20.6 cm.)
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A Mycenaean Buff-ware Storage Jar, Crete(?), circa 13th Century B.C., of ovoid form with flat base, flaring mouth, everted rounded rim, and three angular handles on the shoulder, the exterior freely painted in brown over a buff slip with a scale pattern, a swirled linear design on the neck. Height 217/8 in. (55.6 cm.)
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An Etruscan Red-ware Storage Vessel, circa 1st half of the 6th Century B.C., of broad ovoid form with flaring neck and rounded rim, the body decorated in applied relief with an echeloned checker pattern, a band of triangles on the shoulder. Height 17 in. (43.2 cm.)
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A Bronze Stag, Southwest Caspian Area, circa 1000-900 B.C., with cleft front hooves, cylindrical body pierced twice horizontally, tapering head with protruding eyes, and high pronged horns. Height 4 in. (10.2 cm.)
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An Ottoman Polychrome Tile, Iznik, late 16th Century, of rectangular form, painted in cobalt-blue, green, and tomato red on the white ground, with an interlaced lotus flower, an ogivil arabesque containing reserved split palmettes, and serrated leaves. 95/8 by 61/2 in. (24.5 by 16.5 cm.)
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Seven Safavid Polychrome Tiles, circa 17th Century, all decorated in cuerda seca technique on a cobalt-blue ground in yellow, turquoise, lime green, black, and reserved white with parts of scenes including human figures in a pastoral landscape, some with musicians, one with a man in a European(?) hat, one with a horse. approx. 91/2 by 91/2 in. (24.1 by 24.1 cm.)
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A Group of Islamic Textiles, circa 9th/12th Century, comprising: an Abbasid tiraz (trademark) embroidered in gold string; a tapestry woven fragment with pictorial scene; a large tapestry woven fragment with a floral guilloche frieze; a Fatimid fragmentary roundel; a Fatimid silk fragment woven with kufic inscriptions and floral motifs in red and blue and copper thread; a Fatimid linen fragment wov
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A Bronze Mortar, Seljuk or Ilkhanid, circa 13th Century, of octagonal form with offset splayed base and two ring handles, the sides decorated with panels of kufic inscription and inverted lotus buds engraved with split-palmette roundels, arabesques with fantastic animals at the corners. Diameter 51/4 in. (13.3 cm.)
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A Greek Terracotta Balsamarium, circa late 6th Century B.C., in the form of a siren seated with her head turned to her right, with long spreading tail and hair falling in braided tresses onto the shoulders, her face with wide-set almond-shaped eyes; remains of red pigment. Length 67/8 in. (17.5 cm.)
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A Roman Bronze Handle, circa 1st Century A.D., from a large krater or basin, the attachment finely cast in high relief and engraved and stippled with two maenad heads each with lively expression and hair bound in a top-knot, goat horns and ears cast in low relief above them, the fluted grip with notched decoration. Height 5 in. (12.7 cm.)
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Seven Core-formed Glass Vessels, circa 4th/2nd Century B.C., comprising: an alabastron of slender cylindrical form with opaque white and turquoise zig-zag decoration; a deep-blue alabastron of slender tapering form decorated with an opaque white feather pattern, rim partially restored; a turquoise-blue amphoriskos decorated with an opaque white feather pattern, the knob, foot, and handles in trans
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A Roman and Gold and Garnet Ring, circa 3rd Century A.D., with broad convex hoop with deeply cut voluted decoration, and rounded lozenge-shaped bezel set with a cabochon garnet. Width 11/8 in. (2.9 cm.)
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An Attic Red-figure Lekythos, circa 460-450 B.C., with contoured disk foot, carinated handle, and echinus mouth, the body painted with a youth facing right and bending down to tie a sash to a stele, and wearing a himation falling from his left shoulder, his staff leaning at his side, a band of meander and saltire squares above, linked palmettes on the shoulder. Height 121/4 in. (31.1 cm.)
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A Bronze Figure of a Cat, 22nd/26th Dynasty, 944-525 B.C., seated with the tail curled around to the forepaws, and wearing a Sekhmet-headed aegis crowned by the sun-disk suspended on a twisted cord over the breast, with taut slender body, engraved whiskers, and finely modeled head with large almond-shaped eyes recessed for inlay, and ears with markings in the form of stylized maat-feathers, the ri
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An Old Babylonian Hematite Cylinder Seal, circa 2000-1600 B.C., carved with the sun-god Shamash wearing a flounced robe and horned tiara and holding his saw-weapon in his right hand, a goddess gesturing towards him standing behind, Shamash standing on a small bull with human head, a worshiper clad in a long garment and bearing a kid approaching him, and with a suppliant goddess clad in a long flou
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193
An Elamite Clay Commemorative Brick, period of King Untas-Huban, circa 1255-1235 B.C., from the ziggurat at Choga-Zanbil near Susa, inscribed in Elamite in six lines of cuneiform text commemorating the building of a chapel in a temple of the king's predecessors. 14 by 31/2 by 8 in. (35.6 by 8.9 by 20.3 cm.)
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A Roman Marble Relief Fragment, circa late 2nd/early 3rd Century A.D., carved in high relief with a draped male figure seated on a folding stool raised up on a high dais, his feet resting on a low foot-stool, an attendant standing behind him. 18 by 14 in. (45.7 by 35.6 cm.)
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A Pale Blue-green Faience Ushabti, 30th Dynasty, 380-342 B.C., holding the pick, hoe, and seed-sack, and wearing a braided beard with curled tip and striated tripartite wig, his face with long eyebrows and cosmetic lines in relief, ten lines of inscription in front. Height 101/8 in. (25.7 cm.)
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119
Two Hellenistic Terracotta Lekythoi, circa 3rd Century B.C., each with high handle and beaked spout, the body in the form of a seated sphinx with long haphazardly incised hair falling to her shoulders, wearing a necklace with oval pendants, the space between the forelegs, handle, and spout decorated with impressed scrolls, volutes, palmettes, and tendrils, a female head at the base of each handle;
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261
A Limestone Relief Fragment, 1st Intermediate Period, 2180-1987 B.C., carved in sunk relief with a man striding to right and holding a long staff in his left hand and scepter in the right, and wearing painted sandals, projecting kilt with large knot, armlets, broad collar, triangular beard, and shoulder-length wig, his skin painted red, the other details in black. 173/4 by 101/4 in. (45.1 by 26 cm
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286
A Mummy Portrait of a Woman, Roman Period, circa 1st/2nd Century A.D., wearing a purple tunic and mantle, green stone necklace, and globule earrings, her round face with bow-shaped mouth and large deep-set eyes, her coiffure arranged in rows of corkscrew curls. 171/2 by 91/8 in. (44.5 by 23.2 cm.)
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126
A Bichrome Marble Figure of a Goddess with Serpent, circa 1st/2nd Century A.D., the goddess standing on a high oval base and holding a vessel in her extended right hand, a serpent entwined around the laurel or olive tree at her right, an eagle perched in front of the openwork upper branches, the goddess wearing sandals and a long chiton girt at the waist. Height 51/8 in. (13 cm.)
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204
An Achaemenid Silver Phiale Mesomphalos, circa 6th/5th Century BC, of shallow form with wide sharply flaring rim, the interior repoussE in relief with lotus petals radiating around the low domed omphalos. Diameter 81/8 in. (20.6 cm.)
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276
An Obsidian Amulet, Late Period, 716-30 B.C., in the form of two finely tapering fingers with delicately carved nails and incised joints. Length 39/16 in. (9.1 cm.)
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A Bronze Figure of Isis with Horus, 26th/30th Dynasty, 664-342 B.C., the goddess seated and holding the child Horus in her lap, and wearing a long close-fitting dress, bracelets and armlets, broad beaded collar, striated tripartite wig with uraeus surmounted by horns and sun-disk, and diadem of uraei, the inserted crown missing, her face with large eyes and long eyebrows formerly inlaid. Height wi
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104
A Cypriot Limestone Head of a Man, circa late 6th Century B.C., with finely carved short wavy beard, small slightly smiling mouth, fragmentary aquiline nose, and large almond-shaped eyes with eyebrows in relief, and wearing an Egyptian headcloth. Height 101/4 in. (26 cm.)
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137
An Attic Black-glaze Mug, 5th Century B.C., with cylindrical body decorated with encircling ribs and convex ring handle, the resting surface black, the remainder of the underside reserved. Height 213/16 in. (7.1 cm.)
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A Carnelian Amulet of a Cat, Late Period, 716-30 B.C., seated with the tail curling around to the left, the whiskers engraved, a suspension loop on the back. Height7/8 in. (2.2 cm.)
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A Black Schist Vase, 18th Dynasty, 1540-1292 B.C., with splayed conical foot, globular body, and offset wide slightly flaring neck with flat everted rim. Height 313/16 in. (9.7 cm.)
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144
A Roman Bronze Figure of Aphrodite, circa 2nd/3rd Century A.D., standing on a circular pedestal with her weight on her right leg, her left hand held before her, the right hand extended with the palm up, her hair parted in the center, bound in a cylindrical chignon above the nape of the neck, and surmounted by a stephane, two long wavy locks escaping onto her shoulders. Total height 6 in. (15.2 cm.
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194
A Sabean Alabaster Head of a Woman, Southern Arabia, circa 1st Century B.C., with long tapering neck, the oval face with small mouth, long narrow nose, large eyes recessed for inlay, and grooved eyebrows. Height 91/4 in. (23.5 cm.)
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A Pottery Lydion, East Greek, circa 1st half of the 6th Century B.C., with high stem foot, broad pyriform body, and wide flaring neck with flat everted rim, the body and the top of the rim decorated with a broad black-glaze band between encircling lines in dilute glaze. Height 5 in. (12.7 cm.)
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A Bronze Figure of the Apis Bull, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C., striding on a rectangular base, and wearing an engraved winged scarab over the rump, cross-hatched saddle cloth, engraved image of the vulture goddess Nekhbet over the shoulder, and broad collar, his head with ribbed brows and incised triangle and fillet on the forehead, the horns surmounted by the sun-disk with uraeus. Height without t
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239
An Ottoman Polychrome Dish, Iznik, 17th Century, with low pierced foot-ring, the interior painted in tomato red, green, cobalt blue, and black on the white ground with a dense asymmetrical spray of flowering plants including a carnation, a tulip, a passion flower(?), and a rose or chrysanthemum, the Chinese cloud pattern on the rim, alternating blue and green rosettes on the exterior. Diameter 113
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A Cypriot Terracotta Figure of a Goddess, Late Bronze Age II, circa 1300-1225 B.C., of slender form standing with her hands held beneath her breasts, the details carefully incised, traces of a three-stranded red and black collar remaining, her heart-shaped face with small incised mouth, large beaked nose, applied circular eyes beneath long painted eyebrows, and black-painted cap-like coiffure. Hei
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A Limestone Figure of a Lion, Ptolemaic/early Roman Period, circa 304 B.C.-100 A.D., couchant on a rectangular base with the tail curled over the left hind leg, with stylized stippled mane, the head and ruff probably recut, perhaps in medieval times. Length 22 in. (55.9 cm.)
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A Bluish-green Glass Bowl, Sasanian, circa 4th/6th Century A.D., of deep rounded form, the exterior with encircling registers of concave circular facets. Diameter at rim 311/16 in. (9.4 cm.)
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A Sumerian Lapis Lazuli Cylinder Seal with Contest Scene, Early Dynastic II/III, circa 2700-2400 B.C., carved with a lioness attacking a human-headed bull crossed by a lion grappling with an ibex, a standing deity at right holding a mace, an axe in the field before him, a scorpion below two lines as the terminal. 2.5 by 1.3 cm.
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A Bronze Figure of Ptah, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C., standing on a rectangular platform approached by five engraved steps, holding the was-scepter, and wearing an enveloping cloak, engraved broad collar, striated beard with beard-straps, and close-fitting cap, the sides and back of the platform finely engraved with an inscription. Height 53/4 in. (14.6 cm.)
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A Cobalt-blue Core-formed Glass Alabastron, circa 4th/3rd Century B.C., of slender tapering form with disk rim and twin stylized duck-head handles, the ribbed body decorated in opaque yellow and turquoise with zig-zag spiral thread; chip on rim. Height 41/4 in. (10.8 cm.) [61.33.48]
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108
Three Neolithic Terracotta Goddesses, circa 5th Millennium B.C., comprising a figure of steatopygous voluminous form with legs bent at the knees, prominent belly with indented navel, and broad rounded hips, and two diminutive seated steatopygous figures, one with hands resting on her pregnant belly. Heights 25/8, 17/16, and 11/4 in. (6.7, 3.7, and 3.2 cm.)
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195
A Sabean Alabaster Figure of a Ram, Southern Arabia, circa 1st Century B.C., couchant on a rectangular base, his legs folded underneath him, with curling tail, striated spiral horns, conical eyes, and flat muzzle with grooved mouth. Length 57/8 in. (14.9 cm.)
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A Terracotta Votive Head of a Woman, Magna Graecia, 2nd half of the 5th Century B.C., her idealized face with strong features, prominent chin, full lips, straight nose, and finely arched eyebrows, her wavy hair parted in the center, swept back above the ears, and surmounted by a stephane; traces of red pigment. Height 11 in. (27.9 cm.)
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320
A Marble Torso of Aphrodite, circa 2nd/1st Century B.C., standing with her weight on the right leg, the right arm raised. Height 43/4 in. (12.1 cm.)
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A Corinthian Pottery Aryballos, circa 600 B.C., of globular form with high angular handle and disk rim, the front decorated with a large lotus quatrefoil, the head of a woman facing left on the handle, a star motif below, a large reserved rosette encircling the mouth. Height 3 in. (7.6 cm.)
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151
A Roman Bronze Lion Mask Handle, circa 2nd/3rd Century A.D., holding the ribbed ring in his gaping jaws, the teeth bared and tongue protruding, with finely stippled fur, prominent stylized brows, and radiate wavy mane. Height 71/8 in. (18.1 cm.)
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182
A Neo-Sumerian Hematite Cylinder Seal with Presentation Scene, Mesopotamia, Third Dynasty of Ur, circa 2100-2000 B.C., carved with a goddess seated on a dais and wearing a flounced robe and multi-horned tiara, her arm outstretched, being approached by a similarly attired goddess leading a female figure and grasping the fringe of her long robe, a lunar crescent in the field, the secondary inscripti
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116
A Greek Gilt-terracotta Applique, Taras, 4th Century B.C., molded in openwork relief with a griffin in combat with an Arimasp, the Arimasp wearing a short chiton, Phrygian cap, and wind-blown cloak, and falling back against his shield with his sword held up behind him. Length 61/8 in. (15.6 cm.)
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A Limestone Relief Fragment, early 26th Dynasty, circa 664-600 B.C., finely carved in shallow relief with the head of a man facing right and wielding a spear(?), a strap across his shoulder, and wearing a short beard and echeloned wig of triangular curls, the eyebrows and cosmetic line in contoured relief; remains of red pigment. 35/8 by 27/8 in. (9.2 by 7.3 cm.)
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A Bronze Uraeus, Late Period, 716-30 B.C., probably from the crown of a king or god, the body of the serpent coiled into two loops and with long undulating tail, the flaring hood with remains of red glass inlay. Height 93/8 in. (23.8 cm.)
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A Bronze Figure of Osiris, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C., standing on a trapezoidal base, holding the crook and flail, and wearing a broad beaded collar, braided beard with curled tip, and the atef-crown with striated plumes resting on ram horns and tassel falling behind, his face with large eyes and finely contoured eyebrows. Height 91/4 in. (23.5 cm.)
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A Roman Bronze Applique of Artemis, circa 2nd/3rd Century A.D., the bust of the goddess emerging from radiating leaves, her head turned up and to her right, and wearing a goat-skin cloak, her right shoulder bare, her face with parted lips and incised pupils, the engraved hair parted in the center and bound in an elaborate top-knot on the crown. Height 61/2 in. (16.5 cm.)
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An Akkadian Green Jasper(?) Cylinder Seal with Contest Scene, circa 2400-2200 B.C., carved in a well-modeled style with the nude bearded hero grappling with a water buffalo and a bull-man grappling with a rampant lion with bared teeth, the panel in the field formerly containing an inscription, now mostly erased. 2.7 by 1.6 cm.
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A Limestone Quadriga, Mesopotamia, circa 2100-1500 B.C., the four horses standing at ease and yoked together across the shoulders, holes through their muzzles for the missing bits, the fragmentary lower portions of the figures riding in the chariot remaining. Length 81/2 in. (21.6 cm.)
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199
A Terracotta Figure of a Goddess, Southwest Caspian Area, circa 1100-900 B.C., of steatopygous form with short sharply tapering legs, applied naval and breasts, and long tapering neck with globular face and crested coiffure. Height 11 in. (27.9 cm.)
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219
A Byzantine Gold Cross, circa 5th/6th Century A.D., with slightly flaring arms and ribbed suspension loop, one glass cloisson remaining, the back decorated in repoussE with a chevron design. Height 1 in. (2.5 cm.)
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220
A Group of Greek Gold, Stone, and Glass Jewelry, circa 4th/2nd Century B.C., comprising: a gold earring with twisted hoop terminating in a voluted oval shield with braided filigree centering a tear-shaped red glass cabochon; twelve gold pendants each set with carnelian within a beaded and voluted border; a similar pendant set with a garnet, gold and blue glass spacers beads; eight chalcedony penda
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A Green Faience Horus Falcon Amulet, Ptolemaic Period, 304-30 B.C., of stout form, standing on a rectangular base and wearing the crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, with striated tail-feathers and suspension loop. Height 11/2 in. (3.8 cm.)
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A Carnelian Amulet of an Oryx, Late Period, 716-30 B.C., couchant with ribbed horns laid back, the rib cage indicated, and with longitudinal suspension hole. Length15/16 in. (2.4 cm.)
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221
A Cobalt-blue Core-formed Glass Head Bead, Phoenician or Carthaginian, circa 5th/6th Century B.C., with long ribbed beard, white face, blue eyes and eyebrows, white ears, and blue curly hair. Height 15/16 in. (3.3 cm.)
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138
A Gnathia-ware Kylix, circa 2nd half of the 4th Century B.C., with high foot-ring in two degrees and upward-turned handles, the carinated interior painted in white and detailed in yellow with the figure of a prancing horse with wind-blown mane and forelock, scrolling tendrils below the rim, a laurel or ivy wreath on the exterior. Diameter at rim 55/8 in. (14.3 cm.)
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A Red Limestone Stele Fragment, 3rd Intermediate Period, 1075-944 B.C., finely carved in sunk relief on three sides, one side with the god Onuris raising a spear in his hand and followed by the goddess Selket wearing her scorpion crown, a papyrus scepter in her hand, the other side with a procession of deities including two falcon-headed gods, ithyphallic Min, and another deity holding a Seth-head
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223
A Cobalt-blue Core-formed Glass Head Bead, Phoenician or Carthaginian, circa 6th/5th Century B.C., with turquoise-blue beard, yellow face, white earrings, and cobalt-blue eyes, eyebrows, and twisted diadem. Height 1 in. (2.5 cm.)
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282
Two Banded Alabaster Canopic Jars, 26th/30th Dynasty, 664-342 B.C., one surmounted by a lid in the form of jackal-headed Duamutef, protector of the stomach, the other by a lid in the form of human-headed Imset, protector of the liver, wearing a wide wig, his round face with large wide-set eyes and eyebrows in relief. Heights 107/8 and 111/2 in. (27.6 and 29.2 cm.)
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318
A Marble Torso of a Goddess, circa 1st Century A.D., standing with her weight on her left leg and resting her left hand on her hip with the palm facing out, and wearing a chiton girt beneath the breasts and himation falling from the left shoulder and gathered in a fold below the navel, the nearly flat back schematically worked. Height 111/2 in. (29.2 cm.)
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An Indurated Limestone Jar, Predynastic Period, Nagada II, circa 3600-3200 B.C., of ovoid form with offset base, tubular handles, and flaring mouth with flat rim, the creamy-white stone with reddish-brown inclusions. Height 6 in. (15.2 cm.)
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189
A Large Kassite Hardstone Cylinder Seal, Mesopotamia, circa 1400-1200 B.C., carved with a standing bearded male figure wearing a fringed robe, his arm raised, a recumbent sphinx before him, a recumbent ibex, a monkey, and a Kassite cross in the field, the inscription translating "I trust in you, may I not be put to shame, Marduk, great Lord . . . have mercy." 4.8 by 1.5 cm.
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216
A Roman Gold and Carnelian Ring, circa 1st/2nd Century A.D., with broad convex hoop and rounded shoulders, the oval bezel set with a slightly convex carnelian intaglio engraved with the figure of a goddess facing left, a crescent above. Width 1 in. (2.5 cm.)
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A Bronze Figure of Osiris, 26th/30th Dynasty, 664-342 B.C., standing on a trapezoidal base and holding the crook and flail, and wearing a braided beard with curled tip, and the atef-crown with striated plumes and ram horns. Height without tenon 93/8 in. (23.8 cm.)
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A Wood Funerary Mask, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C., or earlier, wearing a tripartite wig with rounded lappets, the face with square chin, outlined lips, straight nose, and almond-shaped eyes with long cosmetic lines carved in relief, the details in black and traces of white pigment. Height 221/2 in. (57.2 cm.)
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115
Two Greek Terracotta Appliques, circa 5th Century B.C., each in the form of a horned divinity with long wavy beard and moustache and finely modeled face with black-painted pupils, one with striated voluted curls framing the forehead, the other with rows of small round curls; remains of red pigment. Heights 23/8 and 21/8 in. (6 and 5.4 cm.)
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A Pair of Sumerian Gold Earrings, circa late 3rd/early 2nd Millennium B.C., each of tripartite lentoid disk form with cylindrical hoop. Widths 1 in. (2.5 cm.)
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A Group of Forty Books; Greek Pottery and Vase-Painting, dating from (1935-1995), including: J.D. Beazley, The Berlin Painter (Revised Edition, Mainz 1974), 32 plates, original buckram; J.D. Beazley, The Kleophrades Painter (Revised Edition, Mainz 1974), 32 plates, original buckram; J.D. Beazley, The Pan Painter (Revised Edition, Mainz 1974), 32 plates, original boards; J.D. Beazley, The Developm
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185
An Old Babylonian Hematite Cylinder Seal, circa 1890-1600 B.C., carved with a frontal nude winged goddess with her hands clasped at her waist and bird talons for feet, the remainder of the seal carved in two registers, the upper register with a nude frontal goddess and a god each approached by a worshiper, a lion-headed griffin behind, the lower register with a goat, a human-headed fish, and a goa
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187
A Mittanian Hematite Cylinder Seal, circa 1500-1200 B.C., carved with a standing male figure wearing a fringed robe and cap and holding a scimitar standing before a goddess with hands raised in adoration, a diminutive griffon-demon standing between them, two confronted sphinxes and a bull, a band of guilloche, and two ibexes standing on their hind legs on either side of a sacred tree and a griffin
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191
Two Achaemenid Cylinder Seals, circa 5th/4th Century B.C., comprising a chalcedony seal carved with a bearded god wearing a fringed robe grasping a rampant ibex by the horns, a short sword in his other hand, and a banded agate seal carved with two rampant gazelles and a rampant lion, a plant in the field. 2.7 by 1.1 cm. and 2.2 by 1.0 cm.
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A Buff-ware Ewer, Azerbaijan, circa 9th Century B.C., of globular form with high slightly flaring neck, cylindrical handle with circular thumb-rests, and pouring spout in the form of the head of a moufflon with high ribbed horns, erect ears, dotted-circle eyes, and deeply grooved and incised detail, a suspension hole through the beard, the shoulder of the vessel decorated with a wide stippled band
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A Large Group of Sasanian Stone Stamp Seals, circa 4th/6th Century A.D., in carnelian, serpentine, agate, green jasper, rock crystal, hematite, and other stones, most carved with animals including wild boars, bulls, insects, stags, scorpions, some with inscriptions, a few with mounted warriors.
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A Red-ware Spouted Jar, Southwest Caspian Area, circa 1000-800 B.C., of deep flaring form with rounded shoulder and short vertical rim, a zebu standing at the base of the long beaked spout, five subsidiary vessels attached to the shoulder and decorated below the neck with notched bands. Length 18 in. (45.7 cm.)
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A Copper Scepter Finial, probably Canaanite, circa mid 2nd Millennium B.C., in the form of the addorsed forequarters of four couchant bulls supported on spiral volutes emerging from an engraved floral caylx, with flaring cylindrical socket above. Height 33/8 in. (8.6 cm.)
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An Aubergine Glass Jug, circa 3rd/5th Century A.D., with spreading foot, slender ribbed ovoid body tapering into a cylindrical neck, wide flaring mouth with cylindrical collar, and angular strap handle; iridescence. Height 61/4 in. (15.9 cm.) [61.33.19]
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A Bronze Figure of Neith, 26th/30th Dynasty, 664-342 B.C., the goddess striding and wearing a long close-fitting dress and the crown of Lower Egypt, an ankh formerly held in her right hand, a scepter in the left. Height 87/8 in. (22.5 cm.)
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135
An Apulian Red-figure Guttus, circa 360-330 B.C., with torus base concave and reserved underneath, lion-head spout, quadruple ring handle, and central strainer, the shoulder painted on one side with a leopard facing right, scrolls flanking the handle, the details in added white and red wash. Length 5 in. (12.7 cm.)
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An Opaque White Core-formed Glass Head Pendant, Phoenician or Carthaginian, circa 6th/5th Century B.C., with cobalt-blue eyes, twisted cobalt-blue and opaque yellow and white diadem, and cobalt-blue suspension loop. Height7/8 in. (2.2 cm.)
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280
Twelve Faience, Terracotta, Wood, and Stone Ushabtis, 19th Dynasty/Late Period, 1292-30 B.C., comprising a polychrome wood ushabti, a wood ushabti covered in black bitumen, a terracotta ushabti of a lady, two Third Intermediate Period turquoise faience ushabtis, a 26th Dynasty pale-green faience ushabti with five lines of inscription in front, a small turquoise faience ushabti, four small blue-gre
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281
Sixteen Faience Ushabtis, 26th/30th Dynasty, 664-342 B.C., in shades of turquoise-blue and green, each holding the hoe, pick, and seed-sack, eight with columns of inscription in front, the remainder uninscribed. Heights 41/2 to 51/4 in. (11.4 to 13.3 cm.)
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An Alabaster Jar, 5th/6th Dynasty, 2520-2195 B.C., of slender slightly flaring form with flat offset rim and splayed foot. Height 55/8 in. (14.3 cm.)
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A Byzantine Amber Glass Bottle, circa 6th/early 7th Century A.D., of quadrangular form with rounded shoulder and flaring mouth with rounded rim turned in and down, the four sides mold-blown in relief with Christian or Jewish symbols, a lattice pattern on the base; highly iridescent. Height 3 in. (7.6 cm.)
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A Limestone Jar, Predynastic Period, late Nagada II, circa 3400-3200 B.C., of broad rounded form with twin tubular handles and wide slightly convex rim. Width 87/8 in. (22.5 cm.)
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139
A Hellenistic Lead-glazed Skyphos, circa 1st Century B.C., with splayed foot-ring and convex ring handles with voluted thumb-rests, the body decorated in relief beneath the green glaze with exotic vegetation, the interior glazed amber yellow. Width 57/8 in. (14.9 cm.)
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Twenty Sumerian Shell Plaques, Early Dynastic III, circa 2500-2400 B.C., each of rectangular form, engraved with rampant or striding ibexes, bulls, and mythical creatures. 1.8 by 0.9 to 2.7 by 2.2 cm.
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A Syrian Hematite Cylinder Seal, circa 1900-1700 B.C., carved in seven registers with: recumbent lions, recumbent lion protomes with tails, human heads, guilloche, recumbent lions, small recumbent lions, and human heads, the registers separated by a horizontal line. 2.5 by 1.5 cm.
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218
An Islamic Gold and Niello Ring, circa 11th/12th Century A.D., with slightly convex hoop flaring at the shoulders, and hexagonal bezel, the shoulders and bezel decorated with scrolling split palmettes, an engraved inscription in the center of the bezel. Width11/16 in. (1.8 cm.)
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An Attic Red-figure Pelike, circa early 4th Century B.C., with foot in two degrees and centrally ribbed handles, the body decorated on one side with a satyr pursuing a maenad, a sash in her left hand, a youth seated at right and observing the scene, a thyrsos in his right hand, two himation-clad men flanking a stele on the reverse, the details in added white. Height 91/2 in. (24.1 cm.)
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A Gray Schist Figure of Isis with Horus, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C., the goddess seated on the throne in the form of her name-sign, and wearing a long close-fitting dress, anklets, armlets, broad beaded collar, and striated tripartite wig surmounted by the vulture headdress and diadem of uraei with horns and sun-disk, her face with long contoured eyebrows and cosmetic lines, the child Horus claspi
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236
A Safavid Polychrome Tile, circa 17th Century, decorated in cuerda seca technique in yellow, cobalt blue, black, and reserved white on a lime-green ground with a princely figure gazing up and to his right, holding a staff surmounted by a fleur-de-lis, and wearing a caftan and cylindrical crown, floral motifs in the background. 9 by 93/8 in. (22.9 by 23.8 cm.)
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A Limestone Relief Fragment, 11th/early 12th Dynasty, circa 2081-1900 B.C., carved in shallow relief within a torus border with the owner seated before a table laden with meat, fowl, lotus blossoms, loaves of bread, fruits, and libation vessels, the inscriptions carved in sunk relief and including the name of the deceased, Ipy, Seal Bearer of the King and Sole Companion. 191/2 by 137/8 in. (49.5 b
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A Fragmentary Red Granite Ushabti of Akhenaten, 18th Dynasty, reign of Akhenaten, 1353-1336 B.C., the front carved in sunk relief with a column of inscription including the the prenomen of the king. Height 31/8 in. (7.9 cm.)
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295
Fifteen Egyptian Antiquities, 18th Dynasty/Late Period, 1540-30 B.C., comprising four kohl jars in alabaster, calcite, and serpentine, one large kohl vessel lid, four small alabaster circular cosmetic bowls, a diminutive pyriform jar, an unfinished alabaster globular jar, a banded alabaster alabastron, an alabaster lidded jar of slightly flaring cylindrical form carved with two columns of inscript
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A Cobalt-blue Glass Twin-handled Bottle, circa 1st Century A.D., with globular body slightly indented underneath, cylindrical neck, collar rim folded down and up, and twin convex handles. Height 31/8 in. (7.9 cm.) [61.33.39]
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An Aquamarine Glass Beaker, circa 2nd/3rd Century A.D., with folded foot-ring and deep slightly flaring body; highly iridescent. Height 31/2 in. (8.9 cm.) [53.47.25]
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A Nasrid Molded Plaster Tile, Andalusia, 2nd half of the 14th Century, molded in low relief with an elongated star-shaped panel containing an inscription translating: "There is no conqueror but God." 11 by 19 in. (27.9 by 48.3 cm.)
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412
Five Glass Vessels, circa 1st/6th Century A.D., comprising an early Roman unguentarium with wheel-cut groove on the conical body, an early Roman blue-green bottle with wheel-cut groove on the shoulder of the pear-shaped body, a jar with broad globular body and ribbed slightly flaring neck, a bottle with slender pear-shaped body decorated with groups of wheel-cut lines, narrow neck, and funnel mout
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413
Seven Glass Unguentaria, circa 1st/3rd Century A.D., comprising two blue-green unguentaria each with domed body and flat everted rim, a blue-green candlestick unguentarium with conical body and flat everted rim, an aubergine unguentarium with high domed body and wide flat rim turned out and in, an aubergine unguentarium with slender conical body and short neck with flaring mouth and rounded rim tu
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277
A Group of Egyptian Antiquities, New Kingdom/ Ptolemaic Period, circa 1540-30 B.C., comprising thirteen blue and white faience amulets of Thoth, Anubis, Bes, and other deities, a blue glass frog, a turquoise faience scarab with holes for attachment to a mummy, a strand of miscellaneous amulets and beads, two fragmentary scarabs or scaraboids with inscriptions, three faience vessels, a large faienc
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An Aquamarine Glass Bottle, circa 4th/5th Century A.D., with indented base, carinated pyriform body with swirling ribs, triple handles, and tall cylindrical neck with flaring mouth and two collars. Height 55/8 in. (14.3 cm.)
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Three Amulets, Middle Kingdom/Late Period, 1987-30 B.C., comprising a pale-green faience amulet of a seated cat, her kitten seated between the forelegs, a breccia amulet of a hedgehog with engraved fur and longitudinal suspension hole, and a deep red variegated marble amulet of a hippopotamus with ribbed suspension loop and fierce expression. 15/16,5/8, and3/4 in. (3.3, 1.6, and 1.9 cm.)
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391
A Luristan Bronze Horse-bit, circa 8th Century B.C., each cheek-piece in the form of a horse walking on a bar, with erect ears, large globular eyes, beaded mane, and collar with pendant, the circular bit with spiral terminals. Length of cheek-pieces 41/2 by 43/8 in. (11.4 by 11.1 cm.)
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393
Two Bronze Swords, Southwest Caspian Area, circa late 2nd Millennium B.C., similar in form to the preceding. Lengths 301/2 and 27 in. (77.5 and 68.6 cm.)
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245
An Inlaid Wood Gaming Board, 18th/19th Century, of rectangular form, the inlaid ivory, gilt, and hardwood decoration comprising rectangular niche-shaped panels centering a hexagon on each side, and two long bands of cursive inscription, a brief inscription on the front. 8 by 26 by 10 in. (20.3 by 66 by 25.4 cm.)
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An Alabaster Jar, Old Kingdom, 2965-2195 B.C., with flat base, pyriform body, and short neck with torus rim. Height 51/2 in. (14 cm.)
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A Basalt Alabastron, Late Period, 716-30 B.C., of slender slightly tapering ovoid form, two circular mortises below the rim. Height 93/16 in. (23.3 cm.)
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321
A Marble Torso of Aphrodite, circa 1st Century B.C., standing with her weight on her right leg and wearing a diaphanous chiton falling from her left shoulder, her himation falling behind her shoulder and probably once held up in her left hand. Height 5 in. (12.7 cm.)
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385
A Limestone Ossuary, Palestine, Roman Period, circa 1st Century B.C./1st Century A.D., of quadrangular form resting on four low feet and surmounted by a barrel-vaulted lid with semicircular handle grips at each end, the front finely carved with two large rosettes with dotted-circle ornament on the petals; traces of ochre pigment. 185/8 by 241/8 by 12 in. (47.3 by 61.3 by 30.5 cm.)
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198
A Terracotta Figure of a Goddess, Southwest Caspian Area, circa 1100-900 B.C., of steatopygous form with angular hips and buttocks, short conical arms, tapering cylindrical neck, globular face, and high crested coiffure or crown. Height 103/8 in. (26.4 cm.)
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A Turquoise Faience Amulet of a Cat, Late Period, 716-30 B.C., seated on a rectangular base with the tail curled around to the left, with long erect ears and ribbed suspension loop. Height 11/4 in. (3.2 cm.)
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259
Two Egyptian Deities, Late Period, 716-30 B.C., comprising a bronze figure of Sekhmet, standing with her arms held to her sides, and wearing a close-fitting dress and striated tripartite wig surmounted by the sun-disk with large uraeus, and a greenish-gray faience amulet of ibis-headed Thoth, striding on a rectangular base, and wearing a pleated kilt, broad collar, and striated tripartite wig. Hei
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224
Ten Mosaic Glass Fragments, circa 1st Century B.C./2nd Century A.D., decorated in canes of numerous brilliant colors with designs including a frontal female face, festoons, rows of rosettes, feather patterns, and floral motifs. 17/16 to9/16 in. (3.7 to 1.4 cm.) [61.33.86, 87, 88, 90, 96, 102, 103, 104, 110, 111]
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407
An Aubergine-tinted Glass Dish, circa 3rd/4th Century A.D., with indented base, vertical sides, and broad flat mouth with rim turned up and folded down; iridescent. Diameter 41/2 in. (11.4 cm.) [61.33.29]
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416
Four Islamic Glass Vessels, circa 10th/14th Century A.D., comprising a dark blue flask of slender quadrangular form with white spiral thread decoration, a deep blue-green jar with globular body decorated with a band of wheel-cut spirals, a colorless bottle with cylindrical mold-blown body decorated in relief with vertical panels containing S-scrolls and other curvilinear motifs, and a Mamluk minia
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305
A Group of Forty-eight Books; Greek, Etruscan and Roman Sculpture, dating from (1888-1997), including: G.A. Mansuelli, Galleria degli Uffizi, Le Sculture, Vol. I-II (Cataloghi dei Musei e Gallerie d' Ital 13/16a, Rome 1958-1961), 326 plates and 219 plates, original buckram and dust-jackets, a complete set of the official catalogue of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures at the Uffizi in Florence, in
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299
A Group of Sixty-five Books; Ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, and Islamic Art and Archaeology, dating from (1942-1997), including: J.D. Cooney, Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum, Vol. IV = Glass (London 1976), 1898 catalogue entries, 8 color plates, 900 illustrations, original buckram and dust-jacket; H.E. Winlock, Models of Daily Life in Ancient Egypt from the Tomb of Mek
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300
A Group of Fifty-four Books; Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Art and Archaeology, dating from (1926-1997), including: D. Burr Thompson, Ptolemaic Oinochoai and Portraits in Faience. Aspects of the Ruler-Cult (Oxford 1973), 292 catalogue entries, 4 color plates, 72 monochrome plates, original buckram; H. Hoffmann, Early Cretan Armorers (Mainz 1972), 57 plates, some in color, 7 figures
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302
A Group of Forty Books; Cycladic, Minoan, Mycenaean, Cypriot, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Art and Archaeology, dating from (1949-1997), including: P. Dikaios, Enkomi Excavations 1948-1958 Vols. I-III (Mainz 1969-1971), a complete set of this monumental excavation report in 4 volumes, original buckram and boxed portfolio; Vol. I = The Architectural Remains, The Tombs; Vol. II = Chronology, Summary a
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A Brilliant Turquoise Faience Bead, New Kingdom, 1540-1075 B.C., of ovoid form decorated in openwork technique with four Eyes of Horus, the details painted in black. Length 13/8 in. (3.5 cm.)
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392
A Large Bronze Sword, Southwest Caspian Area, circa late 2nd Millennium B.C., with ribbed saddle-shaped pommel, solid grip of square section, open rectangular guard, and blade with flat mid-rib. Length 361/4 in. (92.1 cm.)
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247
A Bronze Figure of Isis with Horus, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C., seated with her feet resting on a trapezoidal foot-rest and holding the child Horus on her lap, and wearing a long close-fitting dress, bracelets and armlets, broad collar, and tripartite wig surmounted by the vulture cap, diadem of uraei, and horns and sun-disk. Height 59/16 in. (14.1 cm.)
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297
A Group of Fifty-six Books; Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Late Antique, Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic Art and Archaeology, dating from (1929-1997), including: 26 volumes of the Papers of the British School at Rome (1960-1987), a run of this leading journal, with hundreds of articles on every aspect of Greek, Italic, Etruscan, Roman, Late Antique, and Early Medieval Art, copiously illustrated t
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An Alabaster Jar, 6th/12th Dynasty, 2360-1759 B.C., of ovoid form with low vertical rim. Height 43/8 in. (11.1 cm.)
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208
A Pair of Gold Earrings, Western Asia, circa 8th/7th Century B.C., of boat-shaped form decorated with applied bosses and spiral wire, beaded collars at the base of each hoop. Lengths 11/8 in. (2.9 cm.)
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188
Two Mittanian Hematite Cylinder Seals, circa 1400-1300 B.C., comprising a seal carved with the nude bearded hero, a diminutive robed male figure to one side, a stylized tree or standard(?) on the other side, astral symbols on either side of the hero's head, and a seal carved with a bird, a scorpion, two fish, and a squid. 1.5 by 0.8 cm. and 1.9 by 0.9 cm.
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234
Two Pottery Bowls, circa 10th/13th Century, comprising a large Nishapur bowl with slightly splayed foot beveled underneath and straight flaring sides, the interior painted in dark brown with a large decorative kufic inscription centering a scrolling floral motif, a line of kufic inscription on the opposite side, and an Ilkhanid bowl with straight foot-ring and deep slightly rounded body, the inter
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249
A Bronze Figure of Isis with Horus, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C., the goddess seated with her feet resting on a trapezoidal footstool and holding her child Horus in her lap, and wearing anklets, long close-fitting dress, striated tripartite wig surmounted by a diadem of uraei with horns and sun-disk, Horus wearing an amulet suspended on his breast and the crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. Height witho
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A Limestone Stele with Bronze Inlays, Late Period, 716-30 B.C., in the form of a pylon, the two remaining inlays each in the form of a uraeus, one crowned by the sun-disk, both with shen-signs suspended on their tails, the hoods with lapis-lazuli inlay. 77/8 by 81/8 in. (20 by 20.6 cm.)
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327
Three Greek Terracotta Figurines, 5th/4th Century B.C., comprising a Boeotian figure of a goddess standing on a high stepped base, holding an open casket by her shoulder, and wearing a chiton and elaborate coiffure, a Boeotian figure of a youth standing on a stepped base and wearing a short chiton and long cloak, his left arm resting on a column, and a figure of a woman running to her left with ar
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175
A Limestone Cylinder Seal, Northern Mesopotamia or Syria, circa 2600-2300 B.C., carved with two crossed lions, one attacking a gazelle, the other attacking a small inverted animal, a seated figure playing the lyre, a snake, an animal head, and dots in the field. 4.4 by 1.8 cm.
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A Pale-blue Glass Unguentarium, circa 1st Century A.D., with flat base, slender pear-shaped body, cylindrical neck, and flaring rim folded in, the translucent matrix decorated with swirls of opaque white and dark blue. Height 39/16 in. (9.1 cm.)
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251
A Bronze Figure of Isis with Horus, Late Period, 716-30 B.C., the goddess seated and holding the child Horus in her lap, and wearing a long close-fitting dress, striated tripartite wig, and diadem surmounted by horns and sun-disk. Height as restored 71/2 in. (19.1 cm.)
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270
A Fragmentary Turquoise-blue Faience Bowl, 18th Dynasty, 1540-1292 B.C., of rounded form with slightly flattened base, the interior painted in black with numerous radiating lotus buds and flowers around a central rosette. Diameter 45/8 in. (11.8 cm.)
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293
A Marble Kohl Jar, 12th/18th Dynasty, 1938-1292 B.C., with splayed base, broad pyriform body, and wide disk rim with lid. Height 2 in. (5.1 cm.)
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294
An Alabaster Headrest, Old Kingdom, probably 6th Dynasty, 2360-2195 B.C., carved in three sections, with rectangular base, rounded crescentic pillow, and fluted column with vertical panel for a painted inscription on one side. Height 73/8 in. (18.7 cm.)
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326
Five Terracottas, circa 6th/4th Century B.C., comprising a Boeotian figure of a horse with black-glaze decoration, a Boeotian enthroned goddess of highly stylized flattened form wearing a polos with volute, attributes in her hands, a fragmentary Greek red terracotta figure of a goddess wearing a low polos, an Etruscan terracotta head of a youth, turned slightly to the left, and a fragmentary Taren
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330
A Buff-ware Footed Bowl, Geometric Period, circa 8th Century B.C., with high pedestal foot and deep rounded bowl with everted rounded rim, the exterior painted in red with encircling bands and panels of zig zags and vertical lines, broad encircling lines inside. Height 81/4 in. (21 cm.)
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A Roman Marble Figure of Aphrodite, circa 1st Century A.D., the goddess standing with her weight on the left leg with her fragmentary right arm raised, and wearing a diaphanous chiton leaving her left shoulder bare and long himation falling from her right shoulder and gathered below her navel in her fragmentary left hand; traces of pigment. Height 91/8 in. (23.2 cm.)
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411
Three Glass Bottles, circa 1st/5th Century A.D., comprising a blue-green unguentarium with rounded base and conical body, a blue-green unguentarium with pear-shaped body, and an aubergine-tinted sprinkler bottle with ribbed globular body; highly iridescent, repaired, small losses to the first, small hole in the body of the third. Heights 73/4, 55/16, and 35/8 in. (19.7, 13.5, and 9.2 cm.) [61.33.2
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Three Hematite Cylinder Seals, circa 1850-1600 B.C., comprising: a Syrian seal with presentation scene, carved with a seated figure with two other figures approaching, an animal-headed figure standing behind, a bird, a sun-disk with crescent, a fly, and an ankh in the field, two reclining ibexes and a guilloche pattern as the terminal; an Old Babylonian seal carved with two male worshipers standin
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404
An Olive-green Glass Head Flask, circa 2nd Century A.D., with cylindrical neck and flaring mouth with rounded rim turned in, the body mold-blown in the form of a janus head of a boy with thick curly hair; iridescent. Height 31/16 in. (7.8 cm.)
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408
A Cobalt-blue Glass Bottle, circa 3rd/4th Century A.D., with indented base, broad pyriform body, and tall flaring neck with cut rim; iridescence. Height 51/8 in. (13 cm.) [61.33.17]
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410
Three Blue-green Glass Balsamaria, circa 5th/6th Century A.D., each with stout splayed foot, slender tapering body, and flaring mouth with rounded rim turned in, one with ribbed ornament on the body, two with twin looped handles, and one with zig-zag thread decoration; iridescence. Heights 5, 41/8, and 313/16 in. (12.7, 10.5, and 9.7 cm.) [53.47.15, 53.47.8, 53.47.6]
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273
Four Lapis Lazuli Amulets, New Kingdom/Late Period, 1540-30 B.C., comprising two four-headed striding rams, a Horus Falcon with finely incised wings, and a baboon seated with the forepaws resting on the knees. Heights11/16 to3/8 in. (1.8 to 1 cm.)
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A Carnelian and Gold-glass Bead Necklace, Egypt, circa 1500 B.C./100 A.D., composed of sixteen carnelian poppy-pod pendants arranged in two strands and interspersed with ovoid beads and two Roman gold-glass beads. Length 181/4 in. (46.4 cm.)
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Five Greek Terracotta Heads, circa late 6th/mid 5th Century B.C., comprising a Boeotian head of a goddess, her long ribbed coiffure surmounted by a polos with high flat back, a head of a goddess wearing earrings and a cylindrical polos, a head of a goddess wearing a fragmentary himation and stephane, and two heads with long coiffures falling onto the shoulders. Heights 41/2 to 23/4 in. (11.4 to 7
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A Colorless Glass Goblet, circa 3rd/5th Century A.D., with stem foot and deep ovoid body with flaring rim; highly iridescent. Height 23/8 in. (6 cm.) [61.33.38]
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312
A Group of Miscellaneous Antiquities, circa 3rd/4th Century A.D., and earlier, most of late Roman Imperial origin, including ten bronze crossbow fibulae, four silver trumpet fibulae, a Roman bronze fibula in the form of a bird, two Roman bronze disk brooches, one with red and blue enamel, two Roman bronze keys, and eight silver and bronze rings.
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A Neo-Babylonian Red Agate Cylinder Seal, circa 800-700 B.C., carved with a kneeling winged god holding streamers emanating from a winged sun-disk, a god to either side, one standing on a bull, the other on a lion, a star and a date palm surmounted by a bird in the field. 2.8 by 1.2 cm.
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233
A Turquoise-glazed Storage Jar, circa 8th/9th Century, with flat base, ovoid body decorated with an incised wavy band on the shoulder, tapering neck ornamented with vertical indents, and torus rim. Height 177/8 in. (45.4 cm.)
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A Bronze Figure of a Nile Perch, Late Period, 716-30 B.C., resting on a sled and wearing an engraved broad collar and diadem of uraei surmounted by horns and sun-disk, the fins and eyes finely incised, a ribbed suspension loop behind the crown. Length 51/8 in. (13 cm.)
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Ten Bronzes, Late Period, 716-30 B.C., comprising: a fragmentary figure of a striding ibis with traces of cloissonE inlay in the tail, a figure of the Apis Bull wearing an engraved saddle cloth and sun-disk with uraeus, the vulture-goddess Nekhbet over the rump and shoulders, a situla, a seated cat amulet, a small Horus-headed scepter, and five figures of Osiris, the largest holding the crook and
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A Limestone Sculptor's Model of a Lion, 30th Dynasty/early Ptolemaic Period, circa 380-200 B.C., couchant on a rectangular base rounded at the back, the tail curled over the right hind leg, gridlines remaining on the unfinished head and mane. Length 91/4 in. (23.5 cm.)
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A Bone Furniture Ornament, probably Egypt, Roman Period, circa 1st/2nd Century A.D., of slightly tapering columnar form with finial in the form of a highly stylized feline head with bared teeth, finely incised whiskers, flattened nose and small eyes beneath the gnarled brow, the fragmentary ears with incised markings, curled tufts of fur below. Height 41/2 in. (11.4 cm.)
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Six Glass Fragments, circa 3rd Century B.C./1st Century A.D., comprising a Ptolemaic cast floral plaque, a foot of a vessel decorated with floral motifs on a colorless ground, a latticino fragment, a mosaic plaque fragment with yellow and red flowers on a translucent ground, and two other millefiori glass fragments. 31/4 to 11/8 in. (8.3 to 2.9 cm.) [61.33.77, 75, 107, 105, 92, 98]
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A Group of 110 Auction and Sale Catalogues, Publications of Private and Public Collections of Ancient Art, and Museum Handbooks and Bulletins, Ancient Egyptian, Near Eastern, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Art, dating from 1923-1997),
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290
A Stele, a Papyrus, and a Mummy, Late Period, 716-30 B.C., comprising: a polychrome wood round-topped stele, painted in three registers with the owner standing before an offering table and facing Anubis holding the was-scepter, another divinity, and the Fours Sons of Horus, a winged sun-disk with pendant uraei above, three lines of inscription below, a fragmentary papyrus wrapped in linen with a c
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301
A Group of Thirty-one Books; Classical Sculpture, dating from (1897-1990), comprising: H. Berve and G. Gruben, Greek Temples Theatres and Shrines (New York 1962), 212 illustrations, 36 in color; C. Bluemel, Greek Sculptors at Work (London 1955), 68 illustrations; J. Chamay, and J.-L. Maier, Art Grec: Sculptures en pierre du MusEe de Gen 3/16ve Tome I (Mainz 1990), 88 plates, dust-jacket; J. Charbo
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An Aubergine Glass Vase, circa 3rd/4th Century A.D., with slender pyriform body, cylindrical neck with flattened rim turned in, and twin blue-green handles with palmette-shaped attachments at the neck; iridescence. Height 6 in. (15.2 cm.) [61.33.18]
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315
A Minoan Marble Mace-head, circa 1600-1400 B.C., of broad pear-shaped form carved in shallow relief with two concentric-circle motifs and two lanceolate leaves, the creamy white marble with red inclusions. Diameter 21/2 in. (6.4 cm.)
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177
An Akkadian Black Serpentine Cylinder Seal with Contest Scene, circa 2540-2154 B.C., carved with the sun-god Shamash, his foot resting on a small mountain, holding his saw-weapon in his hand, and with two bearded gods butchering an eagle, one god with a bow, the other with a sword, a standard forming the terminal. 3.9 by 2.4 cm.
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180
An Akkadian Green Serpentine Cylinder Seal with Contest Scene, circa 2400-2200 B.C., carved with three pairs of combatants comprising a bull-man grappling with a lion, a kilted hero wearing a flat cap grappling with a bull, and a kilted hero grappling with a human-headed bull, a star-spade in the field. 2.7 by 1.2 cm.
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A Pale Blue-green Glass Jar, circa 3rd Century A.D., with disk base, mold-blown ovoid body in the form of a bunch of grapes, and flaring mouth with rounded rim turned in. Height 31/2 in. (8.9 cm.)
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A Polychrome Terracotta or Mud Brick Figure of a Frog, Middle Kingdom, 1987-1650 B.C., the sacred amphibian, symbol of fecundity, crouching in an alert pose, the lower part of the body painted in white, the upper part painted in green with yellow-dotted black central stripe, the bulging eyes with remains of red pigment, the other details in black. Length 17/8 in. (4.8 cm.)
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241
A Safavid Blue-and-white Dish, Kubachi or Kirman, 17th Century, with low pierced foot-ring, the interior painted in cobalt blue with four partridges standing in a row in a flowery landscape, ten large blossoms encircling the scene, radiating panels on the exterior. Diameter 131/2 in. (34.3 cm.)
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279
A Bright Turquoise Faience Ushabti, 19th/20th Dynasty, 1292-1075 B.C., inscribed for Neferrenpet, holding hoes and seed-sack, and wearing a broad collar and tripartite wig, the details and inscriptions painted in black. Height 51/2 in. (14 cm.)
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394
A Large Bronze Axe-head, 2nd Millennium B.C., of highly stylized avial form with wide slightly curved blade, oval shaft-hole, and curved beak on the butt. Length 11 in. (27.9 cm.)
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396
A Bronze Axe-head, Luristan or Urartu, circa late 3rd/2nd Millennium B.C., with short crescentic blade engraved with geometric motifs and with three ribs on top, and cylindrical shaft-hole with a raised notch pattern, two confronted horned quadrupeds flanking a stylized tree(?) on the butt. Height 3 in. (7.6 cm.)
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240
An Ottoman Polychrome Dish, Iznik, circa early 17th Century, with low pierced foot-ring, the interior painted in blue, turquoise, black, and tomato red with a large central lotus blossom in a field of symmetrically scrolling tulips and other flowers, the Chinese cloud pattern on the rim, alternating blue and turquoise florets on the exterior; traces of gilding. Diameter 117/8 in. (30.2 cm.)
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A Bronze Figure of Osiris, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C., standing on a trapezoidal base, holding the crook and flail, and wearing an enveloping cloak, braided and curled beard, broad collar, and the atef-crown with tassel behind. Height 57/8 in. (14.9 cm.)
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254
A Bronze Figure of Harpocrates, Late Period, 716-30 B.C., seated with his feet resting on a square footstool with engraved inscription in front and holding his right forefinger to his mouth, and wearing a nemes-headcloth with horizontal striations in front, diadem, and the hem-hem crown surmounted by sun-disks. Height 73/8 in. (18.7 cm.)
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257
A Bronze Figure of a Nile Perch, Late Period, 716-30 B.C., resting on a sled supported on a rectangular base and wearing an engraved broad collar and diadem surmounted by horns and sun-disk, the fins striated. Length as restored 45/8 in. (11.8 cm.)
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266
Two Egyptian Antiquities, circa 2640-525 B.C., comprising an Old Kingdom limestone head of a man, his broad face with wide mouth, fragmentary nose, and prominent forehead, the wide wig parted in the center, traces of red pigment, and a 26th Dynasty relief fragment carved with a falcon facing left, remains of detail on the wings and tail feathers. Height 71/2 in. (19.1 cm.); 41/2 by 31/2 in. (11.4
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309
Two Etruscan Bronze Figures, circa 2nd/1st Century B.C., comprising a figure of Herakles wielding his club, the lion skin draped over his left arm, and a figure of a priestess wearing a long chiton, himation, and diadem, a patera in her extended right hand, an offering in the left. Heights 41/4 and 311/16 in. (10.8 and 9.4 cm.)
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A Blue-green Glass Rosewater Sprinkler, Mamluk, circa 13th/14th Century A.D., with splayed foot, globular body with sloping shoulder, and slender tapering neck with small cupped mouth; iridescence. Height 8 in. (20.3 cm.) [61.33.5]
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381
A Syrian Basalt Altar, Chalcolithic, circa late 4th Millennium B.C., of rectangular form with recessed top and base, two feline heads at one end flanking a tree, the sides carved in shallow relief with panels of volutes and an "X" pattern. Length 55/8 in. (14.3 cm.)
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382
A Buff-ware Goblet, Tepe Sialk, circa late 4th Millennium B.C., with splayed pedestal foot and deep carinated body with slightly flaring rim, the shoulder painted in brown over a polished creamy white slip with two stylized ibexes, each with high spiral horns. Height 65/8 in. (16.8 cm.)
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A Buff-ware Double Jar, Predynastic Period, Nagada II, circa 3600-3200 B.C., in the form of two connected ovoid vessels each with cylindrical handle and flat everted rim, the bodies painted on each side in red with a large spiral design, vertical wavy lines beneath the handles. Width 33/4 in. (9.5 cm.)
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307
A Greek Bronze Figure of a Bull, late 8th/early 7th Century B.C., with long straight tail, slender body, flat dewlap, cylindrical muzzle with prominent globular eyes, and wide forward-curving horns. Height 21/8 in. (5.4 cm.)
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