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29 mars 2011

Sotheby's Presents Beautiful and Rare Objects from Its Sale of Arts of the Islamic World

A Highly Important Mamluk Armorial Candlestick made for Sayf al-Din Qushtumur, major-domo of Tuquztamur al-Hamawi, Mamluk viceroy of Egypt (1340-1) and Syria (1342-5) Est: £2,000,000 - 3,000,000. Photo: Sotheby's LONDON.- Sotheby’s sale of the Arts of...

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Tags: Egypt, Mamluk, Syria, Spain, Albarello, Nasrid, Sayf al-Din Qushtumur

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1 janvier 2011

"Passion for Perfection" @ De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam

Portrait miniature of the Qajar ruler, Fath‘ali Shah, Iran, early 19th century. Gold sheet, painted with opaque and translucent enamels, JLY 1231 © Nour Foundation AMSTERDAM.- De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam presents highlights from one of the world’s most...

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Tags: 19th century, Iran, 18th century, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, 15th century, 12th Century, 10th Century, Afghanistan, Mughal India, Iraq, Otoman

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16 mai 2010

Cleveland Museum of Art's Renowned Antiquities Collections Return to View

Coffin of Bakenmut, c. 1000-900 BC. Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, late Dynasty 21- early Dynasty 22. Gessoed and painted sycamore fig; 68 x 208 cm. Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust. CLEVELAND, OH.- After a five-year hiatus, the...

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Tags: Egypt, Roman, Cleveland Museum of Art, Apollo, Anatolia, Beth Misona, Byzantium, Crete, Heqat, Marcus Aurelius, Minoan, Phrygia

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2 mars 2010

Massive Head of Famous Pharaoh Amenhotep III Unearthed in Egypt

The newly unearthed 3,400-year old red granite head, part of a huge statue of the ancient pharaoh Amenhotep III, at the pharaoh's mortuary temple in the city of Luxor. Egypt's Culture Ministry says a team of Egyptian and European archaeologists has unearthed...

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Tags: Egypt, Amenhotep III, Hourig Sourouzian, Luxor

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28 février 2010

“Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt” @ The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia

Colossal Head of Caesarion, Alexandria, 1st century BCE, Granodiorite. H. 2.6 ft / W. 1.9 ft / D. 1.6 ft. © Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation. Photo: Christoph Gerigk. PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The world of Cleopatra, which has been lost to the sea and sand for...

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Tags: Egypt, granodiorite, Cleopatra, Alexandria, Caesarion, Ptolemy XII, Sphinx, The Franklin Institute

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11 novembre 2009

Egypt's Famous Tomb of Tutankhamun Set for 5-Year Renovation Project by Getty

Egypt's antiquities chief Dr. Zahi Hawass, center, supervises the removal of King Tut from his stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. Egypt and the California-based Getty Conservation Institute announced...

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Tags: Egypt, Tutankhamun, Getty Conservation Institute, Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass

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11 octobre 2009

A collection of Fatimid glasses, probably Egypt or Syria, 9th-10th century & 10th-11th century

A Fatimid clear cut-glass bottle, Egypt or Syria, 10th-11th century. photo Sotheby's of cylindrical form on a short spreading foot, with a narrow neck and everted rim, gently sloping shoulders leading to the body decorated with two relief-cut curved and...

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Tags: 9th-10th century, Egypt, Syria, Glass, 10th-11th century, Fatimid

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7 juin 2009

A Faience Sistrum of the Goddess Hathor, late 26th Dynasty, circa 600-525 B.C.

A Faience Sistrum of the Goddess Hathor, late 26th Dynasty, circa 600-525 B.C. in the form of a Hathor-head capital wearing a broad collar and striated wig bound in horizontal bands, uraei on her shoulders, the rattle above in the form of a naos supported...

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Tags: Egypt, Hathor, 26th Dynasty, 600-525 B.C., Faience, Sistrum

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7 juin 2009

A Granite Head of Ramesses II wearing the Blue Crown, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II, 1279-1213 B.C.

A Granite Head of Ramesses II wearing the Blue Crown, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II, 1279-1213 B.C. representing the king early in his reign, resting against a rectangular back pillar with two fragmentary columns of inscription in sunk relief, and...

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Tags: Egypt, 19th Dynasty, 1279-1213 B.C., Blue Crown, Granite, Ramesses II

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7 juin 2009

A Peridotite Block Statue of the Priest of Hathor Amenmose asking for Offerings, 19th Dynasty, 1292-1190 B.C.

A Peridotite Block Statue of the Priest of Hathor Amenmose asking for Offerings, 19th Dynasty, 1292-1190 B.C. seated on a stepped pedestal and holding his upturned hands before him, the folds of his ample belly indicated, and wearing a long kilt reaching...

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Tags: Egypt, 1292-1190 B.C., 19th Dynasty, Amenmose, Hathor, Peridotite

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