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Egyptian faience ushabti of Queen Henuttawy

Egyptian faience ushabti of Queen Henuttawy

Egyptian, Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, ca. 1000 B.C.

Depicted mummiform, bright blue in color, with details in black, including the eyes and brows, a fillet in her hair and a hoe in each of her fisted hands, with six rows of hieroglyphs, reading: “Instructions of the Osiris, the Divine Adoratress Henut-tawy, She says: ‘O these shabty!” and continuing with a form of the standard shabti text from Chapter 6 of The Book of the Dead.

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Ancient Roman Marble Cupid with a Bird

Ancient Roman Marble Cupid with a Bird

A small, statuette-size sculpture represents Cupid (Eros in Greek art) holding a big bird against his chest. The motif comes back to the Hellenistic art that introduced several charming representations of children or Erotes with their pets, little dogs or birds

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Statuette of a crouching woman

Statuette of a crouching woman

Greco-Roman molded glass statuette / amulet of a crouching woman from the 3rd century B.C. – 2nd century A.D. Complete and in good condition despite few chips and cracks.

It depicts a completely nude female figure, seen from the front and portrayed in a very distinctive pose: she is crouching, but only her feet, resting flat on the ground, touch the floor.

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Statuette of a women breast-feeding a child

Statuette of a women breast-feeding a child

This statuette belongs to a significant series of figurines with similar characteristics originating from the Phoenician and Punic worlds. Generally dated to the 7th–6th centuries B.C., they may be standing or seated, holding a child or various attributes (musical instruments, a fan, ears of grain, etc.) or simply holding their breast or belly: in the latter case, they are often called dea gravida

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Group of two feminine statuettes

Group of two feminine statuettes

Levantine terracotta Group of two feminine statuettes from the 7th-6th century B.C. Complete and in good condition. Big chips on the basis. Concretion and few polychromy remains (brown-red).

This group belongs to a significant series of figurines with similar characteristics originating from the Phoenician and Punic worlds. Generally dated to the 7th–6th centuries B.C., they may be standing or seated, carrying a child or various attributes (musical instruments, a fan, ears of grain, brooches, etc.) or simply holding their breast or belly: in the latter case, they are often called dea gravida.

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Miniature Feminine Statuette

Miniature Feminine Statuette

This Near Easter Terracotta Miniature Feminine Statuette is considered as a Tell Halaf Statuette, as she features their style, typology and technique. It depicts a female figure seated with her knees bent and drawn up towards her body; her arms are wrapped around her enormous breasts.

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Statuette of a Dwarf Warrior

Statuette of a Dwarf Warrior

Early Imperial Romain Bronze Statuette of a Dwarf Warrior from the 1st-2nd century A.D. The statuette, made of solid bronze, was cast using the lost-wax technique. The statuette, made of solid bronze, was cast using the lost-wax technique. It was attached to its base (of which no trace remains) by a tenon visible beneath the raised foot.

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Hunchback Statuette (?)

Hunchback Statuette (?)

Hand-modelled, the sculpture depicts a figure of indeterminate gender, characterised above all by the obvious deformation of its spine: its back forms a large hump, emphasised by the spine, which is slightly raised, and by the rendering of the ribs, painted dark brown. This deformity causes the figure’s torso to lean abnormally forwards and to the left.

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Statuette of a Wild Sheep or a Ram

Statuette of a Wild Sheep or a Ram

This Statuette of a Wild Sheep or a Ram was carved from a thin stone pebble, which is still partially translucent, despite the current dark and worn appearance of the surface.

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Statuette of a Human-Headed Bull

Statuette of a Human-Headed Bull

This Statuette of a Human-Headed Bull represents a very popular mythological hybrid figure that was largely widespread in Near Eastern iconography (especially in glyptics) from the Sumerian period, that is the bull with a bearded human head, wearing a headgear (tiara) adorned with a single pair of horns.

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Statue in T Symbol

Statue in T Symbol

Mycenaean Terracotta Statuette in T Symbol from the 14th-13th century B.C.

This statuette, the lower part of which is hollow, was modelled by hand. It
depicts a slender, graceful woman with rather abstract features. It was from the end of the 15th century BCE that figurines of this type began to appear in Mycenaean dwellings, tombs and sanctuaries.

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Centered idol
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