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Twenty-Nine Egyptian Glazed Composition And Stone Amulets

Description : TWENTY-NINE EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION AND STONE AMULETS Including a turquoise clenched fist, First Intermediate Period, circa 2181-2025 B.C., 2.1cm high, a plaque of two conjoined double-sided cartouches, one naming Amenhotep I, circa 1525-1504 B.C., 1.2cm high, a turquoise bound Asiatic captive, 4.4cm high, a blue lioness head, 2.1cm high, both New Kingdom, circa 1550-1069 B.C., a green wedjet-eye, 1.4cm wide, a bright blue and green seated Harpocrates, 2cm high, both Third Intermediate Period, circa 1069-664 B.C., and eight openwork plaques with a goddess, possibly Sekhmet, Late Period, circa 664-332 B.C., 1.8cm high max. (29)

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About the lot N° 86
Title : Twenty-Nine Egyptian Glazed Composition And Stone Amulets, Period : 2181.0
Provenance : Provenance Private collection, Switzerland, acquired prior to 1980. For a similar bound captive, see W. M. Flinders Petrie, Amulets, London, 1914, no. 60c, pl. V, and no. 221b, pl. XLV for a lioness head. See G. D. Scott III, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Trust Collection, San Bernardino, 1992, p.164 for more on fist amulets and their connection with sexuality and male potency.
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