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Join us for an important one-day auction on Thursday, November 17, 2016 featuring classical antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Spanish Colonial, African / Tribal, Russian, even fossils and minerals!

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Egyptian Pre-Dynastic Chert Knife: Egypt, late Pre-Dynastic, ca. 3200 BCE. This is a percussion flaked knife with a curved blade edge and a straight back edge, made of a brown-grey chert often used in ancient Egypt. At one time, it

0001: Egyptian Pre-Dynastic Chert KnifeEst. $1,200-$1,800

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Egyptian Faience Djoser Tile - Step Pyramid: Egypt, Old Kingdom, Third Dynasty, 2630 to 2611 BCE. This is one of the over thirty-thousand blue faience tiles were found in the funerary complex of the Pharaoh Djoser. This was located at Saqqarah

0001A: Egyptian Faience Djoser Tile - Step PyramidEst. $800-$1,200

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Egyptian Necklace w/ Sekhmet Pendant, ex-Sotheby's: Egypt, Late Period / Roman Period, ca. 716 BCE to 200 CE. This is a pale turquoise faience pendant in the form of a lion strung as the center of a necklace with ancient banded agate barrel beads

0003: Egyptian Necklace w/ Sekhmet Pendant, ex-Sotheby'sEst. $1,800-$2,500

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Tall Egyptian 26th Dynasty Faience Ushabti: Ancient Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, Dynasty 26, ca. 662 to 525 BCE. A large ushabti glazed with a beautiful seafoam green faience, presented in the form of a mummiform human with arms crossed,

0003A: Tall Egyptian 26th Dynasty Faience UshabtiEst. $1,200-$1,500Lot Passed

Egyptian Bronze Seated Osiris - Depicted Mummified: Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, ca. 712 to 332 BCE. This is a finely-made cast bronze amulet showing a seated Osiris, the god of the afterlife and and lord of the underworld. He is depicted as

0003B: Egyptian Bronze Seated Osiris - Depicted MummifiedEst. $4,000-$5,500Lot Passed

Egypt Polychrome Wood Sarcophagus Fragment w/ Deities: Ancient Egypt, 26th Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. This is a polychrome wooden panel with a progression of figures that have been painted onto it with wooden bundle brushes. There are three seated

0003C: Egypt Polychrome Wood Sarcophagus Fragment w/ DeitiesEst. $4,500-$6,500Lot Passed

Fine Egyptian Wooden Ptah Sokar Osiris Figure: Ancient Egypt, Late Dynastic to Greco-Roman periods, ca. 712 to 30 BCE. An amazing, rare artifact from a culture whose enigmatic funerary rituals hint at a truly lost way of life, this is a painted

0005: Fine Egyptian Wooden Ptah Sokar Osiris FigureEst. $2,500-$3,500Lot Passed

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3 Egyptian Child's Sarcophagus Panels, Linen / Gesso: Egypt, Late Dynastic period, ca. 712 to 332 BCE. A trio of brightly painted cartonnages - plastered layers formed into panels to line the inside of a sarcophagus or used as mummy decoration. These

0006: 3 Egyptian Child's Sarcophagus Panels, Linen / GessoEst. $8,000-$12,000

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Egyptian Painted Wood Statue - Ptah Sokar Osiris: Ancient Egypt, Late Dynastic to Greco-Roman periods, ca. 712 to 30 BCE. An amazing, rare artifact from a culture whose enigmatic funerary rituals hint at a truly lost way of life, this is a painted

0007: Egyptian Painted Wood Statue - Ptah Sokar OsirisEst. $7,000-$9,000Lot Passed

Ancient Egyptian Cartonnage Panel w/ Anubis: Ancient Egypt, Third Intermediate to Late Dynastic Period, 664 to 332 BCE. I love this piece! A cartonnage (linen or papyrus covered with plaster) panel with a painted design of Anubis, the canid god

0007A: Ancient Egyptian Cartonnage Panel w/ AnubisEst. $2,000-$3,000Lot Passed

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Egyptian Wood Falcon of Horus w/ Original Gilding: Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, Dynasties 26 through 30, ca. 662 to 320 BCE. Very handsome carved wooden falcon representing Horus. Sitting on integral base with original white pigment over gesso, with

0008: Egyptian Wood Falcon of Horus w/ Original GildingEst. $1,500-$2,200

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Egyptian Mummy Mask - Painted Baked Nile Clay: Egypt, Late Dynastic to Ptolemaic Period, ca. 662 to 50 BCE. A very rare mummy mask in human form made of baked Nile clay. If you inspect the clay closely you can see it is filled with straw much

0008A: Egyptian Mummy Mask - Painted Baked Nile ClayEst. $1,400-$2,000

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Custom Necklace - Egyptian Faience / Roman Lapis Beads: Egypt, Ptolemaic to Romano-Egyptian period, ca. 330 BCE to 1st century CE. A beautiful necklace made of red-brown faience beads with three deep blue polygon lapis beads interspersed near the bottom

0008B: Custom Necklace - Egyptian Faience / Roman Lapis BeadsEst. $350-$500

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Necklace w/ Egyptian Faience Beads, Roman Gold Fish: Egypt and Roman, 1300 BCE to 600 CE. A beautiful restrung necklace composed of blue and turquoise Egyptian faience beads and gold spacer beads, with a central tubular gold bead; that central bead is

0008C: Necklace w/ Egyptian Faience Beads, Roman Gold FishEst. $1,600-$2,400

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Romano-Egyptian Terracotta Priapus, ex-Sotheby's: Egypt, Romano-Egyptian period, 30 BCE to 2nd century CE. A hollow pottery figure, mold-made from two pieces, with clear details, especially showing the shape of the robe. Unfortunately the famously

0009: Romano-Egyptian Terracotta Priapus, ex-Sotheby'sEst. $2,000-$3,000Lot Passed

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Lovely Greek Alabaster Alabastron - Rare Form: Greece, ca. 500 BCE. A beautiful alabastron made from actual alabaster that would have belonged to a wealthy Greek. This is a long-bodied vessel, with a flat disk for the mouth and a rounded base.

0009A: Lovely Greek Alabaster Alabastron - Rare FormEst. $1,200-$1,800

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Archaic Greek Pottery Antefix - Woman's Face: Eastern Greece, Archaic Period, ca. 6th to 5th century BCE. A fired pottery antefix with a woman's face under an arch in its center. Early wooden temples were protected by fired and painted clay

0009B: Archaic Greek Pottery Antefix - Woman's FaceEst. $1,500-$2,500Lot Passed

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Greek Corinthian Pottery Squat Oinochoe: Greece, Corinth, late Geometric period, 6th century BCE. A beautiful, round-bodied oinochoe (pouring vessel) made from a creamy brown clay, decorated with a dark, chocolate brown, cream, and dark red

0009C: Greek Corinthian Pottery Squat OinochoeEst. $1,500-$2,000

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Stunning Greek Attic Black-Figure Kylix - TL tested: Ancient Greece, Athens, ca. 490 BCE. A stunning Attic black-figure pottery kylix of an exemplar form with a wide, shallow cup, a narrow stem, and upraised twin handles, all upon a short foot. The

0009D: Stunning Greek Attic Black-Figure Kylix - TL testedEst. $6,000-$8,000

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Superb Greek Core Form Glass Amphoriskos: Ancient Greece, ca. 6th to 4th century BCE. A very early example of a core-formed glass amphoriskos (miniature amphora) once used to hold perfumed oil. This near miniature vase boasts an

0010: Superb Greek Core Form Glass AmphoriskosEst. $5,000-$7,500Lot Passed

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Large Greek Peucetian Bi-Chrome Pottery Krater: South Italic, Peucetian, ca. 650 to 500 BCE. A very fine and large bichrome pottery krater from Peucetia (with Bari and Ruvo as its centers) of a grand scale and an elegant form with twin angular

0010A: Large Greek Peucetian Bi-Chrome Pottery KraterEst. $1,500-$2,200

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Published Greek Terracotta Antefix of Gorgon, ex-C. Ede: Ancient Greece, ca. 540 BCE. Published on the front cover of Charles Ede Ltd Antiquities Catalogue 168 (a copy of which is included with this piece) with the following descriptions,"Greek circular

0010B: Published Greek Terracotta Antefix of Gorgon, ex-C. EdeEst. $6,000-$9,000

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Impressive Cypriot Bichrome Pottery Amphora: Cyprus, Levant Iron Age II, ca. 900 BCE. An impressive and large Cypriot amphora of an elegant form starting from the ring foot, to the globular body with attached twin loop handles, giving way to a

0010C: Impressive Cypriot Bichrome Pottery AmphoraEst. $1,200-$1,600

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Important Greek Bronze Siren, ex-Royal Athena: Greece, 5th century BCE. Classical Greek bronze Siren, once an attachment to a world-class bronze vessel. Shown facing frontal, wings spread framing her face, legs tucked under body seated upon her

0011: Important Greek Bronze Siren, ex-Royal AthenaEst. $10,000-$15,000Lot Passed

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