Sekhmet - Egyptian Museum, Cairo - 600B.C. :

LOT 973 : 8"H

Selket, Goddess of Magic : Selket's divine role was not limited to funerary duties; like her three companion goddesses she acquired those functions in virtue of her long-established reputation in a wider field of protection. She was chiefly noted for her control of magic and, in particular, for treating scorpion stings by means of magic.

LOT 454 : 11" H, Of cultured marble, hand gold leafed and detailed on marble base

Amun-Ra - Great God of Power and Wealth : Amun-Ra. god of kings and king of gods, the oldest and longest venerated rulers of ancient Egypt. Amun, meaning "hidden" and Ra meaning "light" translates to "The Hidden Light The plumes on his head represent the air, which like him. \s felt but not seen. As one of the primordial gods of creation, his name is found in the pyramid texts as far back as the 5th Dynasty (2494-2345 B.C.).

LOT 455 : 13-1/4" H, of cultured marble, hand gold leafed and detailed

Osiris - Egyptian Museum, Cairo. 700 B.C. : Osiris, the Resurrection God, is the central figure in the afterlife myth and in Egyptian mythology as a whole. His name means "The Seat of the Eye". To die and be properly prepared for the other life is to become one with Osiris in the underworld over which he rules. Osiris received earthly rule from his father, Geb. His brother Seth envied his hegemony; he enticed Osiris into a chest and flung him into the Nile. His wife sought and found his body and with her own magic powers and the help of Thoth, Nephthys, Anubis and Horus, restored Osiris to life. Osiris, however already belonged to the world of the dead, and although after his resurrection he could have reclaimed his throne, he preferred to maintain his kingdom in the Land of the Dead, leaving his vindication on earth in the hands of his posthumous son Horus.

LOT 332 : 14.5"H, On Marble Base

Nefertiti : Nefertiti means the "beautiful one is come"

LOT 460 : 7-3/4" H, of cultured marble, hand gold leafed and detailed.

Ushabti with Gold (White) Crown : The gold (white) crown symbolized the region of Upper Egypt and was worn by the ruling Pharaoh. After the two kingdoms of Egypt were united, the gold crown and blue crown; symbolic of Lower Egypt were combined into one crown.

LOT 529 : 7.5" H

Bast : Bast the cat goddess was, like Hathor, a goddess of pleasure. She loved music and dance. In her benevolence, she also protected humanity against contagious disease and evil spirits.

LOT 826 : 11"H, cultured marble, gold leafed and hand detailed

Selket, Goddess of Magic : As archaeologist Howard Carter poked a hole in the door of King Tutankhamun's tomb, then peeked in with the aid of a flashlight, his backer Lord Carnovan anxiously asked if he could see anything. "Yes, Wonderful Things," replied Carter. In the shrine containing the King's vital organs were four beautiful goddesses. Selket who protected the intestines, divine role was not limited to funerary duties; like her three companion goddesses she acquired those functions in virtue of her long established reputation in a wider field of protection. She was chiefly noted for her control of magic and, in particular, for treating scorpion stings by means of magic.

LOT 830 : 19"H, cultured marble, hand gold leafed and detailed

Winged Isis - Egyptian Museum, Cairo. 20th Dynasty 1150 B.C. : This sculpture shows Isis with her wings extended in a pose of protection, often used to protect her son Horus or her husband Osiris. The name Isis means "Seat" or "Throne". She was regarded as the symbolical mother of the King. In myth she sought her dead husband and brother, Osiris, conceived her son Horus by him, buried and mourned him together with her sister Nephtys. Isis was regarded as the “Eye of Ra” and was worshipped as the "Great of Magic" who had protected her son Horus from snakes, predators and other dangers; thus she would protect mortal children also. In the New Kingdom Isis was closely connected with Hathor whose physical attributes, the cow's horns and sun-disk she adopted. The ancient Egyptians regarded the Goddess as the "Eye of Ra".

LOT 331 : 13.5"H, Cultured Marble Statue on marble base

Anubis : God of the dead, Anubis opened the roads to the other world and presided over embalmments. After the funeral, Anubis would take the dead by the hand and introduce him into the presence of the sovereign judges where the soul of the deceased would be weighed. Anubis was the guardian of offerings brought to the ceremony by heirs of the deceased.

LOT 450 : 11"H, Of cultured marble, gold leafed and hand detailed

Maat - Goddess of Truth : Maat, the goddess of truth was identified with the symbol of truth, the ostrich feather. This feather was also the hieroglyph of her name. Maat played an important role in the ceremony called the "Weighing of the Heart". Here the heart of a deceased was weighed in the scale of justice, against the feather of Maat, as a test of truth in determining worthiness for passage into the blessed afterlife of eternity.

LOT 467 : 11" H, of cultured marble with goldleaf.

Isis : Isis, the most famous goddess of ancient Egypt, was the wife of Osiris and the mother of Horus. Isis had a reputation as an enchantress. Her magic was allied to the wisdom of Thoth and was given to mankind as a skill of healing. Isis performed, for the first time in history, the rites of embalmment to restore Osiris to eternal life.

LOT 827 : 12"H, of cultured marble, gold leafed and hand detailed

Ra Harakhte : The sun god of Heliopolis. Called father < gods, Ra once ruled on earth during a gc age when men and gods could live togd happily. Each morning Ra, as the sun. ro the east and set off across the world to in the west, eventually entering the real night and meeting the powers of dark™ A nightly struggle ensued and when the reappeared on the horizon, prayers of d fulness were offered to the triumphant

LOT 449 : 11.5"H, of cultured marble, gold leafed and hand detailed

Seth - God of Evil, Darkness and Chaotic Forces : Seth was considered the god of evil, darkness, and chaotic forces. He was the wicked brother of Osiris and became the incarnation of the spirit of evil, in eternal opposition to the spirit of good. Depicted with the body of a man and the head of a strange unidentified animal, Seth was surprisingly venerated as well as disdained throughout ancient Egyptian history.

LOT 468 : 11" H, of cultured marble with goldleaf.

Akhenathen : At the end of 18th Dynasty Egypt many radical changes took place when Pharaoh Akhenaten came to power: He established the worship of one god, Aten the Sun Disk, when previously there were many; a new capital was founded at el-Amarna; new artistic directions were developed which contrasted sharply with previous convention. This new art resulted in what became the 'Amarna art' which depicted features of the pharaoh's face and body as intentionally elongated and deformed. Akhenaten's chief wife was the beautiful Queen Mefertiti.

LOT 470 : 13" H, of cultured marble, hand goldleafed and detailed

Ushabti with Wig : Hair was of great importance to the Egyptians, it reflected one's social stature. Hair was washed and scented on a regular basis and the wealthy even employed hairdressers. Wigs were extremely popular, men wearing short styles and women wearing longer plaits.

LOT 530 : 6.25" H

Anubis : The jackel god, Anubis, stood guard at the entrance to the tomb's treasury, protecting "secret things". The origin of this god lay in the fact that jackals could be heard howling in the desert to the west of the Nile at sunset - at the time was burials usually took place. Anubis was always associated with death.

LOT 824 : 7.5"L x 3.5H", Of cultured marble, hand gold leafed and detailed, on a gold leaf base

Hathor : Goddess of love and joy, Hathor was proclaimed mistress of merriment, dance and music. When a child was born, seven Hathors came to the bedside to decide the future life of the infant child.

LOT 825 : 11.5"H, cultured marble, gold leafed and hand detailed

Thoth : God of the moon and inventor of speech, Thoth was credited with considerable magic powers. The divine scribe, he was present at all funeral rites, where his function was to record the deeds of the deceased before they were placed on the scales with the feather of truth.

LOT 448 : 12" H, Of cultured marble, gold leafed and hand detailed

Sobek : It was believed that on the day of creation, Sobek emerged from the "Dark Waters" in order to arrange the world.

LOT 451 : 12" H, of cultured marble, gold leafed and hand detailed

Nehebka : Serpent-headed Goddess Nehebka aided Anubis in the embalming and funeral rites.

LOT 452 : 12"H, of cultured marble, gold leafed and hand detailed

Horus : Horus. represented by the falcon, was considered the preeminent divine being. The hieroglyph which represented the idea of God was a falcon on its perch. Throughout ancient Egyptian history, this god was personally identified with the king, as each succeeding pharaoh used the name of Horus as the first of his titles.

LOT 453 : 12" H, of cultured marble, gold leafed, and hand detailed

Ptah, God of Memphis : Ptah was God of Memphis, capital of Egypt in the Old Kingdom (approx. 2600 B.C.). He was also the patron deity of artists and craftsmen. His scepter has symbols of life and stability!

LOT 457 : 12-5/8"H, of cultured marble, hand gold leafed and detailed

Horus Ushabti : The Ushabti is a figurine, usually mummiform, which was placed in the tomb to carry out the necessary work in the next world which the deceased might be called upon to do. Ushabtis were also used to answer in the name of the deceased for the possible actions that they had done while alive – thus the origin of the name, Ushabti, “the one that answers”. Whenever the deceased was called in the next world to sow the fields, carry sand, etc., the Ushabti was supposed to reply, “Here am I”. The best examples like the one represented here were inscribed with a version of the sixth chapter of the Book of the Dead. It was believed that the recitation of the text could make the figure come alive to carry out the obligations asked for in the other world to the deceased.

LOT 531 : 6" H

The Rosetta Stone - British Museum, London, 203BC : When the last temple was closed in the 6th century A.D., the skill of reading hieroglyphs was lost until the discovery of this slab of basalt stone found at Rosetta in the western delta in 1779. On the stone are three scripts. The bottom section is in Greek, the center in demonic (popular script originated in the XXVI dynasty, 700-600BC and widely used for the next thousand years), and the top in hieroglyphs. The stone was first set up in a temple. It was an elaborate “thank you” to the Greek ruler of Egypt, Ptolemy V, who reigned in the 2nd century B.C., for favors that he had given to the priests. The three scripts contained the same text, allowing the hieroglyphs to be translated. French archaeologist, Jean-Francois Champollion spent many years deciphering the symbols of the Rosetta stone. Champollion’s work in the Rosetta stone was an important breakthrough in the translation of Egyptian hieroglyphs.

LOT 708 : 14"H

The Weighting of the Heart - British Museum, London, 1500BC : This relief represents the ceremony of the weighing of the heart in the hall of judgement after death. The deceased is introduced into the hall of judgement by the jackal-headed God Anubis. His or her heart is placed in one of the pans of a scale to be weighed against the feather of truth of the Goddess Maat. Anubis then adjusts the plummet while Thot, generally shown as Ibis-headed, writes down the verdict. Nearby a demon, the “Eater of Hearts”, a composite of crocodile, lion, and hippopotamus waits for a verdict against the deceased, when the heart will then be thrown to it. Upon a satisfactory verdict the deceased is then led by Horus before Osiris. The deceased is presented as on “true of voice, justified” and a suitable candidate to be admitted into the joys of the netherworld.

LOT 707 : 10"Wx5"H Wall Hanging

Anubis Relief :

LOT 972 : 11.5"H

Horus Falcon Relief : In Egyptian mythology, Horus was the Divine Child of Osiris and Isis. As the Incarnate God, his roles were numerous. He united the cosmic principles of male and female. He acted as the uniting force between Upper and Lower Egypt. He interceded on behalf of the King to the Gods and as a living God, it is Horus who bestowed supreme power and divine kingship to a Pharaoh. From his union with Isis he has four sons, guardians of the four Canopic Jars that contain the visceras of the embalmed deceased. Horus's most important cult centers were at Edfu, where the God was venerated in the image of the winged disk, at Kom Ombo, where as Son of Ra he bore the name Haroeris, and at Heliopolis where he was regarded as the God of the Morning Sun under the name of Ra-Harakhty.

LOT 306 : 7.5"H x 11.5"W, Wall Hanging