Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June-July 1924
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/599
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    124 pat bo for) 127 (a9 g- 130 131 Two limestone Heads of Canopic Jars: Mestha, the man-headed, and Hapi, the ape-headed god; a Mould for a Ushabti Figure, in aragonite; and another ser pe ee terra-cotta Ornaments, in soft limestone 4 A limestone rectangular Slab, with figure in relief of the (2) Mnevis Bull of Heliopolis bearing the ureeus between the horns, 74 77. by 6 in., rare ] EGYPTIAN OBJECTS IN WOOD. A carved and painted wood Figure of the Ba Bird, representing the soul of the deceased, 3% in. high; two carved wood Figures of Hawks from sepulchral boxes; a Cake Stamp; the Top of a large wooden ‘et Amulet; two Panels of a Box; a small Vase; a Comb and Human Head; all in wood 10 A BALSAMARY, IN WOOD, carved with faces of Bes, and with handles formed of two serpents, a fine and perfect example, 3%in. high [Pl. IV]; a carved wood Mummy Box of obelisk form, carved with figures of Osiris and Isis in relief, 6% 7m. high ; and another, plain, containing remains of the deceased, 44 in. high 3 headed goddess of Latopolis, a form of Sekhet, a remarkably perfect and highly finished figure, of the utmost rarity in this material, 2% in. high, mounted [PI. IV] } A CARVED WOOD STATUETTE OF THE IrHYPHALLIC Gop Amsu or Min, the type of virility, this beautiful little figure measures only OhG in. high, and is most car efully Jinished in vall details, the right ~ arm missing [PI. Ivy ] A XII Dynasty Ushabti Figure, in wood, of Tcuat, 84 in. high, inscribed with full text of VI Chapter of the Book of the Dead ; anda XX VI Dynasty Ushabti Figure of the “Chief of Messengers,” 83 tn. high; both mounted 2 A XII Dynasty Ushabti Figure, in sycamore wood, dedicated for SoADKE. oe TtLin. high; some Specimens of painted Carton- nage, comprising the four Gods of the Canopic Jars, Anubis at the ceremony of embalming, and a pair of Sandals, with Anubis and 2$/—
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