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Beautifully bound in leather with gold leaf on cover and spine. These two volumes were reprinted from the original nearly-lost books due to degradation. These reference books examine the holdings of the British Museum before Britain colonized Egypt in 1882.
Fascinating! A stunning and…
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- Item Number: R-1195 & R-1196
- Provenance/Origin: 2019 Reprints of 1840s originals
- Composition: Paper and leather
- Dimensions: 9" x 6" wide x ~1.5" thick
- Weight: 3.5 pounds for both
- Price: $ 105.00 USD (both volumes)
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Egyptians used silver as early as the Predynastic Period (ca. 4400–3100 B.C.) and was important – as was gold – for personal ornaments and decorative/religious objects in Egypt through Roman times.
Since Egypt essentially had no silver from its lands, sources were from neighboring countries specifically Persia…
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- Item Number: C-6854
- Provenance/Origin: Handcrafted. Early 1900s. Cairo Egypt
- Composition: Silver & other metals. Turquoise
- Dimensions: 6.5" tall with lid on x 3.5" at widest
- Weight: 1.25 pounds
- Price: $ 290.00 USD
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This large amulet is not really a scarab, even though the scorpion is strongly associated with scarabs. The reason is that scorpions are common on the belly side of scarab beetle figures.
Scorpions like this are associated with the Egyptian goddess of Serket. She was…
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- Item Number: O-1352
- Provenance/Origin: Heliopolis artisans. Circa 1950 - 1960s
- Composition: Stone, perhaps limestone
- Dimensions: 6" long x 3.25" wide x 2'' tall
- Weight: 1.75 pounds
- Price: $ 118.00 USD
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The Falcon of Horus – wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt – is an image of divine kingship. The king was associated with the sky god as the “Living Horus,” and he was thought to represent the rule of the gods on earth. Horus is…
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- Item Number: S-0783
- Provenance/Origin: Hand carved. 1940s. Aswan Egypt
- Composition: Marble
- Dimensions: 11" tall x 7.5" wide x 3" deep
- Weight: 5.25 pounds
- Price: $ 285.00 USD
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Ancient Egyptian paintings, coffins, masks, scrolls and other art are cluttered with images of worshipers with pointed cones on their noggins . . . using offering something to above them. Many of those worshipers were pregnant.
Even with these cone heads appearing all over ancient…
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- Item Number: F-6438
- Provenance/Origin: Unknown but recent
- Composition: Hand cast stone
- Dimensions: 11.25" tall x 7.25" wide x 1" thick
- Weight: 1.6 pounds
- Price: $ 95.00. USD
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With the image of Isis (aka Aset) – a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world – these two bookends are cast in a stone composite material and stained to resemble a light green and gold patina.
Isis – known as…
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- Item Number: S-7405
- Provenance/Origin: Unknown
- Composition: Stone composite
- Dimensions: 8.75" tall x 7" at widest x 2.5" thick. Each
- Weight: 7 pounds both
- Price: $ 145.00 USD for pair
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Original and authentic pieces from ancient Egypt are almost impossible to acquire at a reasonable price. And there are the issues of importing, exporting, authentication and language.
With that said, here is an item that is old but not necessarily ancient.
This painting depicts an…
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- Item Number: O-4731
- Provenance/Origin: Pottery. Aswan. From mid-1900s
- Composition: Clay, paint and lacquer. Fabric backing.
- Dimensions: 5.25' wide x 4" tall
- Weight: 0.5 pound
- Price: $ 85.00 USD
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Original pieces from ancient Egypt are almost impossible to acquire at a reasonable price. And there are the issues of importing, exporting, authentication and language.
With that said, here is an item that is old…
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- Item Number: S-7835
- Provenance/Origin: Swenett / Aswan Village
- Composition: Limestone and coloring
- Dimensions: 11" tall x 5" widest x 5" deep
- Weight: 7 pounds
- Price: $ 550.00 USD
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Original pieces from ancient Egypt are almost impossible to acquire at a reasonable price. And there are the issues of importing, exporting, authentication and language.
With that said, here is an item that is old but not necessarily ancient.
Pharaonic figures painted on a small…
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- Item Number: C-1710
- Provenance/Origin: Luxor antique shop. Likely from the 1930s or earlier
- Composition: Box is wood. Ushabti is stone
- Dimensions: Box: 7" wide x 5" deep x 4" tall; Shabti: 4.75" tall
- Weight: 2 pounds for both
- Price: $ 175.00 USD
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The ancient Egyptians believed that the statutory agricultural labor imposed on them in order to use the Nile floods would continue to be imposed after death and into the afterlife. The shabtis / ushabti – small inscribed figures of adult male/female forms – were formed and made of…
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- Item Number: R-3010
- Provenance/Origin: Paperback. 2008. Shire Egyptology
- Dimensions: 6" x 8.25"
- Weight: 1 pound
- Price: $ 147.00 USD
