Egyptian Faience Amulet Group, Horus Hawk, Thoth Baboon & Winged...
Egyptian Faience Amulet Group, Horus Hawk, Thoth Baboon & Winged Scarab Wing (5)North Africa, Egypt, Middle to Late Period, ca. 1000–300 BCE. A group of five small Egyptian amulets and one workshop implement. A blue glazed faience wing, pierced for attachment, comes from a composite winged scarab pectoral, its feather registers picked out in ocher and red-brown. Beside it sits a crisply modeled hawk amulet in rich blue faience, the falcon form of Horus, and a deep blue-green glass paste baboon squatting on a low plinth, the animal manifestation of Thoth. A metal uraeus amulet rears with its suspension loop intact, while a coarse pottery mold preserves the sunken matrix for a multiple uzat eye, tooling of the amulet-maker rather than the wearer. Glass examples of this scale and color are uncommon. Size: 1.5" H (3.8 cm H); 1.875" H (4.8 cm H).
Thoth, god of writing, reckoning, and the intellectual arts, was attached to two animals, the ibis and the baboon. He appears variously as a man with an ibis head, as the bird itself, or, as here, in the seated baboon form whose dawn cries the Egyptians read as worship of the rising sun.
The uraeus, the rearing cobra of Wadjet, guarded the brow of the king and, in amuletic miniature, the body of the deceased. The uzat (wedjat) eye, restored eye of Horus, was the commonest protective sign of all; the pottery mold in this group is a rare survival of the manufacturing chain behind such amulets, allowing a workshop to press out identical faience plaques in quantity for burial equipment and for the living market alike.
Provenance: Private NYC. collection, acquired in various Bonhams auctions, early 2000’s.
SHIPPING: We coordinate worldwide shipping in-house through specialist international forwarders experienced with fine art and antiquities customs manifests. International buyers must confirm, prior to bidding, that their country's customs authority will accept the item. All duties, taxes, clearance fees, and any costs arising from customs delays, seizures, re-export, returns, or loss in transit are the buyer's sole responsibility. Artemis assumes no liability for items refused entry, detained, or lost after export. We cannot ship ancient items to their country of origin (Egyptian to Egypt, Greek to Greece, etc.).
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Item #73364Blue glazed faience wing from a winged scarab ensemble, having painted ocher and red-brown details. Intact. Finely detailed, rich blue Horus hawk amulet. Missing top suspension loop, otherwise intact. A bronze ureus serpent amulet, with suspension loop at the top. A pottery mold for a multiple uzat eye. Intact. Deep blue-green paste glass seated votive baboon. Some scattered surface roughness, chip on his snout and some base chipping.
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Egyptian Faience Amulet Group, Horus Hawk, Thoth Baboon & Winged Scarab Wing (5)North Africa, Egypt, Middle to Late Period, ca. 1000–300 BCE. A group of five small Egyptian amulets and one workshop implement. A blue glazed faience wing, pierced for attachment, comes from a composite winged scarab pectoral, its feather registers picked out in ocher and red-brown. Beside it sits a crisply modeled hawk amulet in rich blue faience, the falcon form of Horus, and a deep blue-green glass paste baboon squatting on a low plinth, the animal manifestation of Thoth. A metal uraeus amulet rears with its suspension loop intact, while a coarse pottery mold preserves the sunken matrix for a multiple uzat eye, tooling of the amulet-maker rather than the wearer. Glass examples of this scale and color are uncommon. Size: 1.5" H (3.8 cm H); 1.875" H (4.8 cm H).
Thoth, god of writing, reckoning, and the intellectual arts, was attached to two animals, the ibis and the baboon. He appears variously as a man with an ibis head, as the bird itself, or, as here, in the seated baboon form whose dawn cries the Egyptians read as worship of the rising sun.
The uraeus, the rearing cobra of Wadjet, guarded the brow of the king and, in amuletic miniature, the body of the deceased. The uzat (wedjat) eye, restored eye of Horus, was the commonest protective sign of all; the pottery mold in this group is a rare survival of the manufacturing chain behind such amulets, allowing a workshop to press out identical faience plaques in quantity for burial equipment and for the living market alike.
Provenance: Private NYC. collection, acquired in various Bonhams auctions, early 2000’s.
SHIPPING: We coordinate worldwide shipping in-house through specialist international forwarders experienced with fine art and antiquities customs manifests. International buyers must confirm, prior to bidding, that their country's customs authority will accept the item. All duties, taxes, clearance fees, and any costs arising from customs delays, seizures, re-export, returns, or loss in transit are the buyer's sole responsibility. Artemis assumes no liability for items refused entry, detained, or lost after export. We cannot ship ancient items to their country of origin (Egyptian to Egypt, Greek to Greece, etc.).
PAYMENT EXCEPTION: For clients not previously established with Artemis, payment for all gold, precious metal, and gemstone lots must be made by bank wire transfer or certified bank check/money order, without exception.
Item #73364Blue glazed faience wing from a winged scarab ensemble, having painted ocher and red-brown details. Intact. Finely detailed, rich blue Horus hawk amulet. Missing top suspension loop, otherwise intact. A bronze ureus serpent amulet, with suspension loop at the top. A pottery mold for a multiple uzat eye. Intact. Deep blue-green paste glass seated votive baboon. Some scattered surface roughness, chip on his snout and some base chipping.
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