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the collection she built with her husband and their commitment to the arts grew
Provenance: Ambassador Allen Clayton Davis (1927 - ) private collection
Ahura Mazdā gave Gayomard the boon of sleep for respite from the onslaught of Ahriman
Switzerland since 1993
The symmetry and thin walls of the clay body are remarkable in the absence of a potter's wheel
A Royal Egyptian Steatite Scarab, 25th Dynasty, ca. 747 - 656 BCE Jewelry - Necklaces the collection she built withcarved from steatite, with naturalistically rendered legs, pierced horizontally for suspension. Functioning as an amulet, the base is finely inscribed Men Kheper Ra Khmeny. Men Kheper Ra Khmeny was a vassal king of the 25th Dynasty, and all evidence indicates that he ruled in Upper Egypt at Hermopolis. He appears with full royal titles on a plaque in the British Museum. For a related example, see Petrie, Scarabs and Cylinders, pl. LIII, no. 25c 7.
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