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| Auction Closes At: |
16:47:00 02/26/2025 |
| Time Remaining: |
Closed |
| Lot# & Name: |
721. St. Menas Flask, Greek Arrowheads & Amphoriskos (4) |
| Estimate: |
$300-$500 |
| Current High Bid: |
$225.00 |
| Auction Closed(Final Price) |
$225.00 |
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| Category: |
Antiquities
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| Sub Category: |
Egypt - Coptic
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| Culture or Country: |
Greece & Egypt.
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| Period: |
Ca. 1st millennium B.C & 5th century A.D.
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| Size: |
Flask: 3”H.
Amphor: 3-1/4”H. & arrow: 1-1/8” to 1-3/8”L. |
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| Description: |
Including a salmon color molded pottery Saint Menas flask, depicting a deer on the front and lettered on the reverse. Handles and neck restored. Together with a mottled grayware pottery Egyptian amphoriskos having two small rim chips and a foot chip. Finally, an old paper box inked on the lid with an early description, contained in the box are two stone Greek arrow points, not matching the description. |
| Provenance: |
Collection of Dr. W. Benson Harer, Los Angeles, California.
Arrow Heads: Ex. Howlett collection, 1860’s. Ex. Christie’s, Nov. 17, 1977, lot 454.
St. Menas flask: Anglo American Bookstore, 1945 - 1950, Ex. Philip Mitry, 1951.
Amphoriskos: Ex. Emil Brugsch Collection, curator of the Bulaq Museum, Cairo, Egypt. Exhibited at the Drexel Museum, Philadelphia, 1895 to 1914; with the Drexel Institute Collection, Minneapolis Institute of Art, 1915 to 1958, ref. no. 16.563; at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, (LACMA) from 1986 to 1991; in the University of Arizona Museum of Art, October 1993 to December 1993; and in the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art (RAFFMA), California State University, San Bernardino from 1998 to 2023, reference number EL01.082.1998. |
| Shipping Fee: |
| National: |
$55.00 |
| International: |
$110.00 (This is approximate and for Postal Service. Prices may vary, especially for private carriers such as: FEDEX, UPS and BAX).
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St. Menas Flask, Greek Arrowheads & Amphoriskos (4)
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