Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
December 1920
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/462
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    239 2A 242 35 Second Day Thin. high, with horn and ureus attached; mounted on a black marble stand. The butt end of a Staff or Spear, 6%. long, in bronze, oxidized; mounted on a black marble stand. Part of a bronze Situla, 2in. high, oxidized ; mounted on an alabaster stand. ‘T'wo small bronze Crotala, 2in. and 13in. diam. 5 holding noimplements and without inscription, mounted Ushabti Figure, 64in. high, in white limestone, mounted on a black wooden stand, XJ Xth Dynasty 2, Commemorations of Saints for the use of the Deacon during the Anaphora of the Divine Liturgy ; framed in oak between glass. This interesting object is probably unique and shows remarkable variants from the ordinary Alexandrian uses ; a descriptive pamphlet by Mr. W. E. Crum accompanies the diptych ; VIIth Cent. A.D. L in calcareous stone, with a rounded top, commemorating a functionary named Amenemhat, apparently an official of the gold mines. The hieroglyphs are incised; the figures, which are in low relief, show traces of colour. They figures of the deceased, before tables of offerings, worship Osiris and Isis and Harmachis respectively. In the second, his gons, one a priest wearing the leopard-skin, make offerings of food, papyrus and flowers to him and his wife, seated on chairs ; in the third, a son makes simi- lar offerings in the presence of the other members of the family, who are seated on mats and hold lotus flowers throughout, probably by order of the heretic King Akh-n-Aten.. A triangular fragment, 100m. by 1llon., execution of the figures is good and the hieroglyphs are carefully engraved XIL DYNASTY The Property of a Gentleman, consisting of Antiquities found in Greece. the Fifth Century B.C.