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TWO EGYPTIAN ‘NILE SILT WARE’ JARS
Late Period to Ptolemaic, circa 664-32 B.C.
With elongated ovoid body and straight long rim, 28cm-30cm high (2)
Provenance: English private collection, purchased at a Paris auction
circa 1998.
£150-£250
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A COPTIC TERRACOTTA VESSEL
Circa 4th-7th Century A.D.
With squat globular body, decorated with three bands of waves below
the rim in black paint over red slip, 13.5cm high
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Provenance: English private collection, purchased from a Paris auction
house circa 1998.
£100-£200
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THREE COPTIC WOOD KOHL VESSELS
Circa 6th Century A.D.
Including one of spherical shape with flat base, one cylindrical vessel
with slightly flaring base, the lid missing, and another narrow cylindrical
lidded container flaring at both ends, all decorated with grooves, 3.2cm-
4.6cm high (3)
Provenance: English private collection of Surgeon Commander Peter
Grey RN (d.1990), well-known Egyptologist, and his wife Ann Gray née
Churchill.
£350-£450
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FIVE ROMANO-EGYPTIAN OR COPTIC IRON BRACELETS
Circa 3rd-6th Century A.D.
All decorated with notches, 4.3cm-4.8cm diam (5)
Provenance: purchased from Phillips, London, in the 1980s.
£70-£90
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