About the lot N° 131
Title : A large Egyptian turquoise glazed composition amulet of Nefertum
Provenance : Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1988, lot 25.
Mr Jean Thomassen collection, Netherlands.
Private collection, Europe, acquired November 1996 from the above.
Published:
C.A.R. Andrews and J. van Dijk (ed.),
Objects for Eternity: Egyptian Antiquities from the W. Arnold Meijer Collection, Mainz, 2006, p. 236-7, no. 3.50.
For similar, see W.M. Flinders Petrie,
Amulets, London, 1914, pl. XLVI, no, 175b. Nefertum had a particularly close association with Lower Egypt, and alongside Ptah and Sekhmet formed the divine family of Memphis. In one creation myth, the god emerged from the sweetly-smelling blue lotus while it was floating on Nun, the primeval waters; one of the spells in the Book of the Dead hails Nefertum as 'He who is the pure lotus which springs from the nostrils of Re'.Bonhams, auctioneer, London, UK
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Sale title : Antiquities
Sale date : 23 Jul 2020
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