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Translated Sumerian Cuneiform Clay Biscuit

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Antiquities | Pre-Columbian | Folk Art

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Whatever your buying / collecting interest, this auction will have something for you. Classical antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy, Europe, Near East, Far East, Mexico, Central America, South America, North America; plus the first part of a 1000 piece collection of Folk Art with a portion of the proceeds going to benefit The Fowler Museum at UCLA.

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Tall Egyptian Wood Shabti, ex-Sotheby's: Egypt, 19th Dynasty, 1292 to 1189 BCE. This is a tall wooden shabti that would have originally been covered in plaster and painted with facial features, headdress, and hieroglyphs. The arms are

0001: Tall Egyptian Wood Shabti, ex-Sotheby'sEst. $400-$600

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Egyptian Banded Alabaster Vessel: Egypt, Old Kingdom, Third Dynasty through to the Sixth Dynasty (2686–2181 BCE). Gorgeous small banded alabaster jar with two small lug handles, slightly-everted rim and 8 distinct bands throughout

0001A: Egyptian Banded Alabaster VesselEst. $500-$700

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Tall Egyptian Banded Alabaster Bottle / Alabastron: Egypt, New Kingdom to Late Dynastic, ca 1300 to 600 BCE. Tall, slendor and very fine banded alabster vessel - of the type that gave way to the term "alabastron." Wide base tapering to thin nexk,

0001B: Tall Egyptian Banded Alabaster Bottle / AlabastronEst. $500-$700

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Egyptian Faience Ushabti, ex-Sotheby's: Ancient Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, Dynasty 26, ca. 662 to 525 BCE. An attractive Egyptian white faience ushabti in the form of a mummiform human with arms crossed, holding crook and flail, a basket

0002: Egyptian Faience Ushabti, ex-Sotheby'sEst. $400-$600

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Egyptian Faience Ushabti, ex-Sotheby's: Ancient Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21-22, ca. 1070 to 712 BCE. An attractive faience ushabti in the form of a mummiform human with arms crossed, holding crook and flail. Some

0003: Egyptian Faience Ushabti, ex-Sotheby'sEst. $500-$700

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Egyptian Bronze Sarcophagus w/ Shrew Atop: Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, Dynasties 26 through 310, ca. 662 to 320 BCE. Interesting small bronze sarcophagus with a small shrew on top. The sarcophagus is of typical rectangular open form, with

0003A: Egyptian Bronze Sarcophagus w/ Shrew AtopEst. $800-$1,200Lot Passed

Egyptian Bronze Seated Cat - Late Dynastic Period: Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, Dynasties 26 through 31, ca. 662 to 320 BCE. The quintessential Egyptian bronze item every collection needs! Seated bronze cat upon an integral base, tang beneath for

0003B: Egyptian Bronze Seated Cat - Late Dynastic PeriodEst. $2,500-$3,500Lot Passed

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Translated Egyptian Green Glazed Faience Ushabti: Egypt, Late Period, Dynasties 25 through 26, ca. 750 to 525 BCE. Magical green faience afterlife worker figure with molded details, inscription behind - for the Osiris Nubiyti - standing mummiform

0003C: Translated Egyptian Green Glazed Faience UshabtiEst. $400-$600

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Egyptian Carved Wooden Sarcophagus Mask: Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, Dynasty 25 to 30, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. Rough exposed raw wood mask with pleasing facial features, flat back with residual dowels still remaining, minute traces of gesso

0003D: Egyptian Carved Wooden Sarcophagus MaskEst. $1,200-$1,500

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Egyptian Seated Bronze Harpocrates Amulet: Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, Dynasties 26 through 30, ca. 662 to 315 BCE. Lovely ancient bronze of a seated Harpocrates. The youthful prince sits with legs together, sidelock and pharonic crown with

0003E: Egyptian Seated Bronze Harpocrates AmuletEst. $600-$900

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Egyptian Bronze Apis Bull: Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, Dynasties 26 through 30, ca. 662 to 320 BCE. Cast bronze Apis bull on integral base. Bull wears solar disc with uraeus, back with incised decoration and wings of Isis.

0004: Egyptian Bronze Apis BullEst. $900-$1,200

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Rare Egyptian Bronze Sceptre - Lotus Flower: Egypt, Late Dynastic period, ca. 712 to 332 BCE. This is a small votive was, a sceptre from ancient Egypt, with a lotus flower design at the top, and a long, straight bronze staff with a forked end.

0005: Rare Egyptian Bronze Sceptre - Lotus FlowerEst. $1,800-$2,500Lot Passed

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Egyptian Carved Limestone Stele - Original Pigment: Egyptian, New Kingdom to Late Dynastic, Dynasties 20 to 26, ca. 6th century BCE to 332 BCE. Fine limestone stele of tablet form carved in two reliefs, upper panel depicts a standing Horus wearing

0006: Egyptian Carved Limestone Stele - Original PigmentEst. $9,000-$12,000

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Corinthian Polychrome Alabastron with Goose: Corinth, Greece, ca. 6th century BCE. Tall, slender alabastron - used for holding perfumes and scented oils - with slightly sloping rim, decorated on the side with large goose or swan in added brown

0006A: Corinthian Polychrome Alabastron with GooseEst. $700-$900Lot Passed

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Greek Cypriot Pottery "Target" Jug: Greece, Cyprus, ca. 7th century BCE. Pottery jug in pink clay, bulbous base, single rounded handle, thin neck and flared rim. Jar painted in red and black pigments in a series of concentric circles

0006B: Greek Cypriot Pottery "Target" JugEst. $600-$900

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Greek Attic Black Figure Lekythos - Horse & Rider: Ancient Greece, Athens, ca. late 6th to early 5th century BCE. An exceptional Attic lekythos (oil flask) of an elegant slender and petite form depicting not one, but two horse and riders processing

0007: Greek Attic Black Figure Lekythos - Horse & RiderEst. $2,000-$3,000Lot Passed

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Greek Attic Black-Figure Lekythos w/ Dionysus: Ancient Greece, Athens, Ca. 500 BCE. A finely decorated, petite black-figure lekythos, a vessel used by the ancients to store precious oils or perfumes. The iconography of Side A includes a scene

0008: Greek Attic Black-Figure Lekythos w/ DionysusEst. $1,800-$2,500

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Huge Greek Daunian Pottery Funnel Krater: South Italy, Daunian culture, ca. 4th century BCE. One of the largest funnel kraters we have had the pleasure of offering. Sad it is not in better condition. Buff pottery olla with sloping funnel

0008A: Huge Greek Daunian Pottery Funnel KraterEst. $600-$900

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Greek Silver Coin Tetradrachm Athena & Owl: Greece, ca. 449 to 413 BCE. Perhaps the most famous of all ancient coins! Solid silver tetradrachm showing head of Athena wearing Corinthian helmet on obverse, owl standing right, olive branch and

0008B: Greek Silver Coin Tetradrachm Athena & OwlEst. $1,500-$2,000

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Greek Apulian Kantharos with Lady of Fashion: Southern Italy, Greek colony of Apulia, ca. 340 to 320 BCE. One of my favorite styles of Greek pottery! Stemmed cup with two high sweeping handles painted on each side with the ubiquitous Lady of

0008C: Greek Apulian Kantharos with Lady of FashionEst. $1,800-$2,500

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Large Heavily Encrusted Greek Transport Amphora: Greece, Corinth, ca 4th century BCE. A large and fat transport amphora manufactured in Corinth, Greece but doomed to be lost in the Mediterranean Sea. Very rotund body with short button base, and

0009: Large Heavily Encrusted Greek Transport AmphoraEst. $2,500-$3,500

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Ancient Graeco-Persian Bronze Situla: Eastern Greek to Persian empires, ca. 5th to 4th century BCE. Bronze pail or situla with short foot, bulbous midsection, thinning neck and attached thin rim with two attached bird finials acting as

0010: Ancient Graeco-Persian Bronze SitulaEst. $1,200-$1,500Lot Passed

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Lovely Hellenistic Greek Pottery Female: Greece / Rome, Hellenistic period, ca 3rd to 2nd century BCE. Lovely pottery fragment of a female goddess - possibly Aphrodite. Long waves of hair tumble upon her shoulder, faint outline of a gown

0010A: Lovely Hellenistic Greek Pottery FemaleEst. $500-$750

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Roman Bronze Handle w/ Silenus Portrait: Roman Empire, ca. 1st to 2nd century CE. Lovely bronze handle to an oinochoe. Lower section comprised of a very expressive portrait of Silenus - Roman god of wine, depravity and all around good

0010B: Roman Bronze Handle w/ Silenus PortraitEst. $900-$1,400Lot Passed

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