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Sale 59
Pre-Long Beach Coin and Currency Auction
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Lot 2555 |
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Greek. Southern Italy. Canosan funerary figural vase group, ca. 310-280 BC. In three sections, consisting of a lithe female figure, wrapped closely in a hooded cloak worn over a long chiton, surmounting an open-bottomed vessel in the form of a diademed female head with a broad, fleshy face, straight nose, and full lips, likely that of a goddess of the underworld; these two sections resting atop a tall loutrophorus with a broad, flaring mouth, projecting rounded shoulders, long, cylindrical body and a narrow, tapering base flaring to a broad foot, with a central opening to permit flow of libations (see below). Of buff-colored clay, with traces of original polychrome paint remaining on the body (white), head (white for the face, red for hair and lips), and figure (white and lavender). Assembled, the whole stands 38.25" (94 cm) tall. The female figure once attached to a tall strap handle now lost, the attachment points still in place; the figure also broken free from, but still fitting closely to, the goddess head, with minor loss of material around the base.
Estimated Value $10,000 - 12,500.
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Lot 2556 |
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Ptah-Seker-Osiris. Ptolemaic Period. Height 17½". Wooden figure of Ptah-Seker-Osiris in gesso and polychrome. Well and brightly painted with a vertical panel of hieroglyphic inscription on back. Lacking the solar disk (on top of head) and the obelisk plinth with stand; however, complete in itself and quite pleasing overall.
Ptah was the god of creation, the arts and fertility. Seker was also god of craftsmen and of reincarnation. By the Middle Kingdom period, Seker was assimilated with Ptah and became Ptah-Seker. This figurine, in the form of Osiris, also became the lord of the underworld.
Estimated Value $4,000 - 5,000.
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$3,738 |
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