239 EGYPTIAN DEEP TURQUOISE FAIENCE AMULET OF SEKHMET, seated on throne. XXVIth Dynasty, 664-525 BC. H. 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm.) Ex J.M.E. collection, acquired at Bonham’s, London, in May 1996. 240 EGYPTIAN LARGE DEEP TURQUOISE FAIENCE AMULET OF SEKHMET holding papyrus sceptre; uraeus above head, suspension loop behind. Ptolemaic Period, 305-30 BC. H. 3 1/2 in. (8.8 cm.) Ex J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired at Sotheby’s, New York, in June 1988. 241 EGYPTIAN DEEP BLUE FAIENCE AMULET: SEKHMET Lion-headed goddess of war wearing a plumed solar disk with horns; details in black. XXth-XXIth Dynasty, ca. 1200-945 BC. H. 1 7/8 in. (5 cm.) Ex collection of Dr. John S. Winnie, Georgia; J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired at the Drouot, Paris, December 2009. 242 EGYPTIAN LARGE PALE TURQUOISE FAIENCE AMULET OF SEKHMET wearing solar disk with uraeus and holding a lotus scepter. Late Dynastic, 664-332 BC. H. 4 1/2 in. (11.5 cm.) Choice! Ex Dutch collection; J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired from Archea, Amsterdam, in November 2004.
244 EGYPTIAN MIDDLE KINGDOM TURQUOISE FAIENCE HIPPOPOTAMUS, his back is decorated with two facing lotus flowers and on each side with a leaf, painted in black. Extremely rare. XIIth Dynasty, ca. 1991-1786 BC. L. 3 7/8 in.(9.8 cm.) Ex old French collection; Harer Family Trust, acquired from Royal-Athena in 2001. Daybreak Archeometric Laboratory TL test 61A90: 2700 +/- 1000 years. The hippopotamus was the embodiment of the god Set, the bringer of fierce desert storms. It was a pastime of the pharaohs to hunt hippopotamuses in the delta marshes which may account for the waterplants that often decorate these sculptures. An ancient source indicates that Hor-Aha the second pharaoh of the first dynasty, may have been killed by one of these large
mammals while on such a hunt.
243 EGYPTIAN TURQUOISE FAIENCE SEKHMET HEAD from a large figurine, wearing a solar disk with uraeus; the back with a molded relief of the head of Nefertum wearing a lotus with plume and two pendant menats. Choice. Late Period, 715-30 BC.. H 2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) Ex J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired from NeretMinet, Drouot, Paris, in June 2004.
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