Auction 001 Part 2
TimeLine Auctions Antiquities Sale - Day 2
By TimeLine Auction Limited
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Mar 6, 2024
The Court House, 363 Main Road, Harwich, CO12 4DN, UK
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- Egyptian (Lots 451-524)
- Greek (Lots 525-647)
- Roman (Lots 648-751)
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- Roman (Lots 752-948)
- Byzantine (Lots 949-990)
- Archaeological Books (Lots 991-1093)
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LOT 490:
Egyptian Faience Beaded Mummy Mask with Sons of Horus
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Start price:
£
340
Estimated price :
£400 - £600
Buyer's Premium: 36%
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Egyptian Faience Beaded Mummy Mask with Sons of Horus
Ptolemaic Period, 332-31 B.C. Restrung netted beadwork panel of annular and tubular glazed composition beads in blues, greens, black, cream and red-brown colours, depicting a mummy face mask with false beard, a scarab with extended wings below, the 'Four Sons of Horus’ beneath the scarab, joined together with areas of open netting of tubular beads; mounted in a glazed frame with papyrus backing. Cf. Manley, B., and Dodson, A., Life Everlasting. National Museum of Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins, Edinburgh, 2010, p.114, no.43, for a bead-work shroud incorporating the mask, winged scarab, and Four Sons of Horus. 127 grams, 28 cm (11 in.).
Previously with Mariaud de Serres, Paris, France.From a Paris gallery.
The Four Sons of Horus were deities responsible for protecting the internal organs of the deceased. The human-headed Imsety protected the liver, the baboon-headed Hapy protected the lungs, the jackal-headed Duamutef protected the stomach, and the falcon-headed Qebehsenuef protected the intestines.
